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To: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 11:41:57 -0400
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On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 11:26:44PM +0800, jian he wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 11:12 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 07:49:55PM +0800, jian he wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:53 PM jian he <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 12:04 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > 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
> > >
>
> E.1.3.1.5. Privileges
> Add per-table GRANT permission MAINTAIN to control maintenance
> operations (Nathan Bossart)
>
> The operations are VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZE VIEW,
> CLUSTER, and LOCK TABLE.
>
> Add user-grantable role pg_maintain to control maintenance operations
> (Nathan Bossart)
>
> The operations are VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZE VIEW,
> CLUSTER, and LOCK TABLE.
>
> Allow roles with pg_monitor privileges to execute pg_current_logfile()
> (Pavlo Golub, Nathan Bossart)
> ---------------
> should be "REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW"?
Yes, fixed.
> also
> "Allow roles with pg_monitor privileges to execute
> pg_current_logfile() (Pavlo Golub, Nathan Bossart)"
> "pg_monitor" is a predefined role, so technically, "with pg_monitor
> privileges" is not correct?
Good point, new text:
Allow roles with pg_monitor membership to execute pg_current_logfile() (Pavlo Golub, Nathan Bossart)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Add function XMLText() to convert text to a single XML text node (Jim Jones)
>
> XMLText()
> should be
> xmltext()
Right, fixed.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Add function to_regtypemod() to return the typemod of a string (David
> Wheeler, Erik Wienhold)
> I think this description does not mean the same thing as the doc[1]
Yes, I see your point. I changed the text to:
Add function to_regtypemod() to return the type modifier of a
type specification (David Wheeler, Erik Wienhold)
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-CATALOG
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Allow GROUP BY columns to be internally ordered to match ORDER BY
> (Andrei Lepikhov, Teodor Sigaev)
> This can be disabled using server variable enable_group_by_reordering.
>
> Probably
> `This can be disabled by setting the server variable
> enable_group_by_reordering to false`.
Uh, I usually don't go into that detail. There will be a link to the
variable in about a month so users can look up its behavior.
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