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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: Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-10-07T23:25:11Z
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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

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 02:20:21PM +0900, Yugo NAGATA wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:19:11 -0400
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes. This change on CREATE INDEX was introduced by 2af07e2f7 together with
> other commands, but it was missed to be mentioned in the commit message
> although the description was added to the documentation.
> 
> The change on CEATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced by a separate commit
> b4da732fd, since which the REFRESH logic is used when creating a matview.
> Should we add here a link to that commit, too?

I developed the attached patch which adds the two commands and the
commit item.

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