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: 2024-09-29T01:19:11Z

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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

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 02:19:21PM +0900, Yugo Nagata wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2024 00:03:50 -0400
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
> > see the results here:
> 
> I propose to improve the following description in "Migration to Version 17"
> section by adding CREATE INDEX and CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW into the command list.
> 
>      <para>
>      Change functions to use a safe <xref linkend="guc-search-path"/>
>      during maintenance operations (Jeff Davis)
>      <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;2af07e2f7">&sect;</ulink>
>      </para>
> 
> It is suggested in the thread [1] that users could not notice the behaviour
> of CREATE INDEX is changed because the explicit command name is not listed in
> the release notes. So, I think it is better to add CREATE INDEX and
> CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW into the command list. 
> 
> I've attached a patch.

It this a valid change?  Seems so.

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