Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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

Date: 2024-05-26T03:41:48Z

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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

Attachments

master.diff (text/x-diff) patch

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:23:29AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2024-05-22 18:33:03 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 09:40:28AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > On 2024-05-18 11:13:54 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I agree keeping things reasonably short is important. But I don't think you're
> > > evenly applying it as a goal.
> > >
> > > Just skimming the notes from the end, I see
> > > - an 8 entries long pg_stat_statements section
> >
> > What item did you want to remove?  Those are all user-visible changes.
> 
> My point here was not that we necessarily need to remove those, but that their
> impact to users is smaller than many of the performance impacts you disregard.

I liked all your detailed suggestions so applied the attached patch. 

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