Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-08-16T17:02:19Z

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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

REL_17_STABLE.diff (text/x-diff) patch

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 01:22:24PM +0900, Yugo Nagata wrote:
> I found the following in the release notes:
> 
>  Change file boundary handling of two WAL file name functions 
>  (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund, Bruce Momjian)
> 
>  The functions pg_walfile_name() and pg_walfile_name_offset() used to report the previous 
>  LSN segment number when  the LSN was on a file segment boundary; it now returns the LSN segment. 
> 
> It might be trivial, but, reading the associated commit message , I think it would be more explicit
> for users to rewrite the last statement to
> 
> "it now returns the current LSN segment."

Agreed, applied patch attached.  Sorry for the delay.

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