Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 21:51:25 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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On Tue, Sep  3, 2024 at 10:44:01AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> While freely acknowledging that I am biased because I wrote it, I am a bit
> surprised to see the DSM registry left out of the release notes (commit
> 8b2bcf3, docs are here [0]).  This feature is intended to allow modules to
> allocate shared memory after startup, i.e., without requiring the module to
> be loaded via shared_preload_libraries.  IMHO that is worth mentioning.
> 
> [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-SHARED-ADDIN-AFTER-STARTUP

That seems more infrastructure/extension author stuff which isn't
normally mentioned in the release notes.  I think such people really
need to look at all the commit messages.

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