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Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-15T19:34:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 02:41:22PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 02:29:49PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 13:19, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > I have completed the first draft of the PG 19 release notes:
> > >
> > >         https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-19.html
> > 
> > Many thanks for your efforts here.
> > 
> > "Improve performance of internal row formation (David Rowley)"
> > 
> > It's really deformation, not formation. As far as I know, nothing in
> > v19 sped up tuple formation.
> 
> Changed to:
> 
> 	Improve performance of internal row deformation (David Rowley)
> 	                                    --
> Thanks.
> 
> > I also think Nathan's work on autovacuum table prioritisation
> > (d7965d65f) is worth a mention. There were concerns there that it
> > might cause trouble for people who (for some reason) get best results
> > from the previous pg_class-ordered priority. Having something in the
> > notes about this might help direct someone towards why they're seeing
> > autovacuum behave differently after upgrading.
> 
> Yikes, so I collected commits on March 26, but when I went to add new
> commits, I used March 27 as the start date, and missed all the late
> March 26 commits.  I should have started on March 26 to get
> later-in-the-day commits!
> 
> I went back and looked at the commits I missed and the one you pointed
> out is the only relevant one, so that is good.
> 
> Applied patch attached.

Oops, patch _now_ attached.

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Commits

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  1. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove VALIDATE CONSTRAINT lock item

  2. Fix ALTER DOMAIN VALIDATE CONSTRAINT locking

  3. Revert "Enable fast default for domains with non-volatile constraints"

  4. doc PG 19 relnotes: improve awkward or confusing wording

  5. doc PG 19 relnotes: more fixes

  6. doc PG 19 relnotes: various corrections

  7. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjust item to mention pg_replication_slots

  8. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Add fake LSN support to hash index"

  9. doc PG 19 relnotes: add two optimizer hooks

  10. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Optionally" for CPU optimizations

  11. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjustments/removal of items

  12. doc PG 19 relnotes: add UTF-8 case folding performance item

  13. doc PG 19 relnotes: correct two items

  14. doc PG 19 relnotes: add missing commits and details

  15. doc PG 19 relnotes: fix typo, "date" -> "data"

  16. doc PG 19 relnotes: add author and move items

  17. doc PG 19 relnotes: update author

  18. doc PG 19 relnotes: add free space map all-visible item

  19. doc PG 19 relnotes: remove "Lakshmi N" as author of checksums

  20. doc PG 19 relnotes: fix "now targets"

  21. doc PG 19 relnotes: adjust ShmemRequestStruct item

  22. Improve various new-to-v19 appendStringInfo calls

  23. doc: Fix data_checksums data type

  24. Fix WITHOUT OVERLAPS' interaction with domains.

  25. Online enabling and disabling of data checksums

  26. Doc: split functions-posix-regexp section into multiple subsections.

  27. make immutability tests in to_json and to_jsonb complete

  28. Optimize tuple deformation

  29. pgstattuple: Optimize pgstattuple_approx() with streaming read

  30. Use fake LSNs to improve nbtree dropPin behavior.

  31. Use streaming read for VACUUM cleanup of GIN

  32. Clean up ICU includes.

  33. ICU: use UTF8-optimized case conversion API

  34. Add the MODE option to the WAIT FOR LSN command

  35. Speedup tuple deformation with additional function inlining