Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 10:20:23 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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On Thu, May  9, 2024 at 12:18:44PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
> > see the results here:
> >
> >         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
> >
> > It will be improved until the final release.  The item count is 188,
> > which is similar to recent releases:
> 
> Thanks for working on this.
> 
> I believe the part of the 64-bit XIDs patchset that was delivered in
> PG17 is worth highlighting in "E.1.3.10. Source Code" section:
> 
> 4ed8f0913bfd
> 2cdf131c46e6
> 5a1dfde8334b
> a60b8a58f435
> 
> All this can probably be summarized as one bullet "Index SLRUs by
> 64-bit integers rather than by 32-bit ones" where the authors are:
> Maxim Orlov, Aleksander Alekseev, Alexander Korotkov, Teodor Sigaev,
> Nikita Glukhov, Pavel Borisov, Yura Sokolov.

Wow, I try to only list source code items that have some user-facing
impact, and I don't think these do.  I do realize how important they are
though.  This gets into the balance of mentioning items _users_ need to
know about, vs. important improvements that _we_ know about.

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