Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:40:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 11:39:10PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:16:00PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Allow skipping of WAL for new tables and indexes if wal_level is 'minimal' (Noah Misch)
> >
> > Kyotaro Horiguchi authored that one. (I committed it.) The commit message
> > noted characteristics, some of which may deserve mention in the notes:
>
> Fixed.

I don't see that change pushed (but it's not urgent).

> > - Crash recovery was losing tuples written via COPY TO. This fixes the bug.
>
> This was not backpatched?

Right.

> > - Out-of-tree table access methods will require changes.
>
> Uh, I don't think we mention those.

Okay. This point is relatively-important. On the other hand, the table
access methods known to me have maintainers who follow -hackers. They may
learn that way.

> > - Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and
> > log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to
> > COMMIT from commands like COPY.
>
> Uh, not sure how to say that but I don't think we would normally mention that.

Okay.