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Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-09-10T02:46:50Z
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  1. Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands

  2. When creating materialized views, use REFRESH to load data.

  3. Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys

  4. Avoid needless large memcpys in libpq socket writing

  5. Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.

  6. Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser

  7. Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM

  8. Allow SIGINT to cancel psql database reconnections.

  9. Provide API for streaming relation data.

  10. Add hash support functions and hash opclass for contrib/ltree.

  11. Pull up ANY-SUBLINK with the necessary lateral support.

  12. Read WAL directly from WAL buffers.

  13. Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.

  14. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  15. Support +/- infinity in the interval data type.

  16. Extend ALTER OPERATOR to allow setting more optimization attributes.

  17. Consider cheap startup paths in add_paths_to_append_rel

On Sat, Sep  7, 2024 at 11:55:09AM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2024-Sep-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > That seems more infrastructure/extension author stuff which isn't
> > normally mentioned in the release notes.  I think such people really
> > need to look at all the commit messages.
> 
> Are you saying all extension authors should be reading the complete git
> log for every single major release?  That's a strange position to take.
> Isn't this a good fit for "E.1.3.10. Source Code"?

Yes.  There are so many changes at the source code level it is unwise to
try and get them into the main release notes.  If someone wants to
create an addendum, like was suggested for pure performance
improvements, that would make sense.

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