From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 10:01:12 -0400
Message-ID: <20200505140112.GD21752@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 04:14:42PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:16 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 13 release notes. You can
> > see them here:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-13.html
> >
> > It still needs markup, word wrap, and indenting. The community doc
> > build should happen in a few hours.
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks! Some feedback:
>
> +2020-04-08 [3985b600f] Support PrefetchBuffer() in recovery.
> +-->
> +
> +<para>
> +Speedup recovery by prefetching pages (Thomas Munro)
>
> Unfortunately that commit was just an infrastructural change to allow
> the PrefetchBuffer() function to work in recovery, but the main
> "prefetching during recovery" patch to actually make use of it to go
> faster didn't make it. So this item shouldn't be in the release
> notes.
Agreed, removed.
> +2020-04-07 [4c04be9b0] Introduce xid8-based functions to replace txid_XXX.
> +-->
> +
> +<para>
> +Update all transaction id functions to support xid8 (Thomas Munro)
> +</para>
> +
> +<para>
> +They use the same names as the xid data type versions.
> +</para>
>
> The names are actually different. How about: "New xid8-based
> functions replace the txid family of functions, but the older names
> are still supported for backward compatibility."
Agreed.
> +2019-10-16 [d5ac14f9c] Use libc version as a collation version on glibc systems
> +-->
> +
> +<para>
> +Use the glibc version as the collation version (Thomas Munro)
> +</para>
> +
> +<para>
> +If the glibc version changes, a warning will be issued when a
> mismatching collation is used.
> +</para>
>
> I would add a qualifier "in some cases", since it doesn't work for
> default collations yet. (That'll now have to wait for 14).
Done.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
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