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Re: PG 18 relnotes and RC1

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, corey.huinker@gmail.com
Date: 2025-08-30T19:42:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 01:51:23PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> AFAIK nobody has started on the "new features and enhancements" section.

Quick first attempt:

* btree skip scan
* async i/o
* oauth
* virtual generated columns
* OLD/NEW support in RETURNING
* pg_upgrade improvements (stats, --jobs, --swap)
* EXPLAIN enhancements
* uuidv7
* WITHOUT OVERLAPS/PERIOD

Thoughts?

-- 
nathan

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  1. Add list of major features to the v18 release notes.

  2. add_commit_links.pl: error out if missing major version number

  3. doc PG 18 relnotes: Add migration note about tsearch

  4. Remove ts_locale.c's lowerstr()