Draft release notes for next week's releases

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#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

First draft is up at

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=39387228c8b7043d168bada0c64e9f59e83285f5

As usual, please send any comments/corrections by Sunday.

regards, tom lane

#2Justin Pryzby
pryzby@telsasoft.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

First draft is up at
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=39387228c8b7043d168bada0c64e9f59e83285f5
As usual, please send any comments/corrections by Sunday.

+ one more row than requested, so tha it can determine whether the

A little typo: tha it

+      Ensure prepared transactions are properly accounted for during
+      promotion of a standby server (Michael Paquier, Andres Freund)

Ensure *that*

+ It seems unlikely that this bug has yet been hit in practice, as it

Remove "yet" ?

+      Previously this was allowed, but the collation effectively vanished
+      into the ether because of the way collation lookup works: you could
+      not use the collation, nor even drop it.

Is "vanished into the ether" normal language style for the release notes ?

+     <para>
+      Unnecessarily stupid back-tracking logic could result in exponential
+      time spent looking for a match.  Fortunately the problem is masked
+      in most cases by other optimizations; but it is possible to
+      demonstrate it with fairly simple, if contrived, regexps.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>

Same - it seems like this borrows too much from the commit message text (and
style).

--
Justin

#3Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Justin Pryzby (#2)
Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

+ one more row than requested, so tha it can determine whether the

A little typo: tha it
[ etc ]

Ugh. These notes were prepared in a bit more haste than usual,
and I guess it shows :-(. Will fix, thanks for proofreading!

regards, tom lane

In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

As usual, please send any comments/corrections by Sunday.

You probably won't miss this, but just in case: Alexander's very
recent "Reset lastOverflowedXid on standby when needed" commit needs
to be listed now.

--
Peter Geoghegan

#5Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Peter Geoghegan (#4)
Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:

You probably won't miss this, but just in case: Alexander's very
recent "Reset lastOverflowedXid on standby when needed" commit needs
to be listed now.

Yup, I saw it.

regards, tom lane