Re: someone else to do the list of acknowledgments

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>

Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Date: 2025-09-18T15:13:11Z

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Add list of acknowledgments to release notes
- 142885d38053 18.0 landed
Fix misuse of Relids for storing attribute numbers
- 2d756ebbe857 19 (unreleased) cited
meson: build checksums with extra optimization flags.
- a7024398b80a 18.0 cited
Fix concurrent update issue with MERGE.
- c70b6db34ffe 18.0 cited
Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.
- 67a2fbb8f9e9 18.0 cited
doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
- 31c09ef45636 18.0 cited
doc: mention unusability of dropped CHECK to verify NOT NULL
- 7b1053a57749 18.0 cited
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2025b.
- 368c3fbf9da9 18.0 cited
Fix issue with ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates and FILTER
- d47f922246b5 18.0 cited
Fix guc_malloc calls for consistency and OOM checks
- 058b5152f02e 18.0 cited
doc: clarify default checksum behavior in non-master branches
- 901a1cf8b4a2 18.0 cited
Don't ask for bug reports about pthread_is_threaded_np() != 0.
- 4f15759bdcdd 18.0 cited
doc: Clarify synchronous_standby_names parameter.
- 6313a76b355e 18.0 cited
Fix corruption when relation truncation fails.
- 38c579b08988 18.0 cited
doc: fix ALTER DOMAIN domain_constraint to spell out options
- 4200fea80e79 18.0 cited
doc: Add link to listen_addresses as cause of connection failure
- 1eb5564230a3 18.0 cited
doc: Fix INSERT statement syntax for identity columns
- 17b4aa77c3a1 18.0 cited
Use generateClonedIndexStmt to propagate CREATE INDEX to partitions.
- 68dfecbef210 18.0 cited
Fix race condition in COMMIT PREPARED causing orphaned 2PC files
- cf4401fe6cf5 18.0 cited
vacuumdb: Skip temporary tables in query to build list of relations
- 1ab67c9dfaad 18.0 cited
Speed up Hash Join by making ExprStates support hashing
- adf97c156238 18.0 cited
Preserve CurrentMemoryContext across Start/CommitTransactionCommand.
- 1afe31f03cd2 18.0 cited

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:57:50AM +0800, jian he wrote:
> hi.
> maybe we should start working on this?
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/developer/roadmap
> says 18 will be released in September 2025.

Folks, our list of PG 18 "new features and enhancements" and
"Acknowledgments" is being added very late in the process.  jian asked
about this in mid-August, and I did the same in late August:

	https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/aLMo7lJKg8bWUs3y@momjian.us

I can't think of any good reason we are having to rush to complete this
when we knew and were warned months ago it was needed.  Yes, it is
_slightly_ easier to do it only once rather than do it early and keep it
updated, but there isn't that a great a benefit that we should be
waiting until the last few days to complete this.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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  Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.