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To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:25:41 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 07:50:40PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that these two items in the current notes are separate:
>
> <!--
> Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
> 2024-03-25 [374c7a229] Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables
> Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
> 2024-03-28 [e2395cdbe] ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID
> -->
>
> <listitem>
> <para>
> Allow specification of partitioned <link linkend="tableam">table
> access methods</link> (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep Chakraborty,
> Michael Paquier)
> </para>
> </listitem>
>
> <!--
> Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
> 2024-03-08 [d61a6cad6] Add support for DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS MET
> -->
>
> <listitem>
> <para>
> Add <literal>DEFAULT</literal> setting for <literal>ALTER TABLE
> .. SET ACCESS METHOD</literal> (Michael Paquier)
> </para>
> </listitem>
>
> They are very very closely related, so I suggest they should be
> together as a single item. Also, the first one is somewhat strangely
> worded IMO (we don't have "partitioned table access methods" -- rather,
> we have table access methods for partitioned tables). Maybe something
> like
Yes, agree, the wording needs improvement, patch attached.
> * Improve ALTER TABLE ... SET ACCESS METHOD
>
> This command can now also be applied to partitioned tables, so that it
> can <link to "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-DESC-SET-ACCESS-METHOD";
> influence partitions created later</link>. (Justin, Soumyadeep, Michaël)
>
> In addition, it now accepts the value DEFAULT to reset a previously
> set value. (Michaël)
I moved the two items next to each other, but I am concerned combining
the partition feature with the DEFAULT features is just making it too
complicated to understand.
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[text/x-diff] REL_17_STABLE.diff (1.8K, ../[email protected]/2-REL_17_STABLE.diff)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
index 36e19bb8329..6d4ffa8ea1e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
@@ -1659,23 +1659,6 @@ Author: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
</para>
</listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
-2024-03-25 [374c7a229] Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables
-Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
-2024-03-28 [e2395cdbe] ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID
--->
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Allow specification of partitioned <link linkend="tableam">table
- access methods</link> (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep Chakraborty,
- Michael Paquier)
- <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;374c7a229">§</ulink>
- <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;e2395cdbe">§</ulink>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
<!--
Author: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
2024-01-13 [4f622503d] Make attstattarget nullable
@@ -1714,6 +1697,23 @@ Author: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
</para>
</listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
+2024-03-25 [374c7a229] Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables
+Author: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
+2024-03-28 [e2395cdbe] ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID
+-->
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow specification of <link linkend="tableam">table access
+ methods</link> on partitioned tables (Justin Pryzby, Soumyadeep
+ Chakraborty, Michael Paquier)
+ <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;374c7a229">§</ulink>
+ <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;e2395cdbe">§</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<!--
Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
2024-03-08 [d61a6cad6] Add support for DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS MET
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