Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-05-16T02:48:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands
- 3890d90c1508 18.0 cited
When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.
- b4da732fd64e 17.0 cited
Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys
- 8aee330af55d 17.0 cited
Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing
- c4ab7da60617 17.0 cited
Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.
- 5bf748b86bc6 17.0 cited
Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser
- 3311ea86edc7 17.0 cited
Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
- 6dbb490261a6 17.0 cited
Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.
- cafe1056558f 17.0 cited
Provide API for streaming relation data.
- b5a9b18cd0bc 17.0 cited
Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.
- 485f0aa85995 17.0 cited
Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.
- 9f133763961e 17.0 cited
Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.
- 91f2cae7a4e6 17.0 cited
Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.
- 8b2bcf3f287c 17.0 cited
Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.
- 14dd0f27d7cd 17.0 cited
Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.
- 519fc1bd9e9d 17.0 cited
Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.
- 2b5154beab79 17.0 cited
Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel
- a8a968a8212e 17.0 cited

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On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 09:13:14AM -0400, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> I think this wording and organization makes sense. I hadn't thought of
> using "traffic" to describe this, but I like it.
> 
> Also +1 on the Sawada/Naylor change being on the highlight section of
> the release (as David suggested upthread).

Agreed, I went with the attached applied patch.

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