I have added the major features to the release notes with the attached
patch.
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On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 07:53:38PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On 5/21/23 3:04 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > On 5/18/23 4:49 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I have completed the first draft of the PG 16 release notes.
> >
> > One thing that we could attempt for this beta is to include a
> > prospective list of "major features + enhancements." Of course it can
> > change before the GA, but it'll give readers some idea of things to
> > test.
> >
> > I'd propose the following (in no particular order):
> >
> > * General performance improvements for read-heavy workloads (looking for
> > clarification for that in[1])
>
> Per [1] this sounds like it should be:
>
> * Optimization to reduce overall memory usage, including general performance
> improvements.
>
> We can get more specific for the GA.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1]
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5749E807-A5B7-4CC7-8282-84F6F0D4D1D0%40anarazel.de
>
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commit 60751aa503
Author: Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us>
Date: Mon May 22 13:58:24 2023 -0400
doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list
Reported-by: Jonathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2fd2cc0e-df39-3e77-8fcf-35aad5796...@postgresql.org
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
index 893cd8ddb0..3d96bd6e6d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml
@@ -18,7 +18,49 @@
</para>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>ADD HERE</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow parallel execution of queries with OUTER and FULL joins
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow logical replication from standbys servers
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow logical replication subscribers to apply large transactions in parallel
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow monitoring of I/O statistics using the new pg_stat_io view
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve performance of vacuum freezing
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Add support for regular expression matching of user and database names in pg_hba.conf, and user names in pg_ident.conf
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>
@@ -280,7 +322,7 @@ Author: Thomas Munro <tmu...@postgresql.org>
<listitem>
<para>
-Allow full and outer joins to be performed in parallel (Melanie Plageman, Thomas Munro)
+Allow outer and full joins to be performed in parallel (Melanie Plageman, Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
