Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2024-09-13T20:17:31Z

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

Attachments

REL_17_STABLE.diff (text/x-diff) patch

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 09:36:35AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:12:58AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 09:52:42AM -0700, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 11:29 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> >> > For 1, I think adding them to the release notes makes total sense,
> >> > especially if the new APIs are documented not only in source code, but
> >> > also on the website. Nathan his change is of this type, so I agree
> >> > with him it should be in the release notes.
> >> 
> >> +1. I think that the increment JSON parser that is already mentioned
> >> in the release note would fall in this type too; it's not a feature
> >> aimed just for extension authors, but it's kind of source and internal
> >> changes IMO. Since the DSM registry feature is described in the doc, I
> >> think it would make sense to have it in the release notes and probably
> >> has a link to the "Requesting Shared Memory After Startup" section.
> > 
> > This commit?
> > 
> > 	commit 8b2bcf3f287
> > 	Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
> > 	Date:   Fri Jan 19 14:24:36 2024 -0600
> > 	
> > 	    Introduce the dynamic shared memory registry.
> > 
> > Yes, we have time to add it.
> 
> Yes, that's the one.

Attached patch applied, with commit URL link.

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