Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

Thanks you for the review. I did skip these items based on the criteria
I normally use, but it is good for people to review this list to see if
my analysis or criteria is wrong.

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On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:40:45AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Same as the last couple years, I checked for missing items in the release
> notes, running something like this.
>
> git log --cherry-pick --oneline origin/REL_13_STABLE...origin/master
>
> Should any of these be included?
>
> f82de5c46b Do COPY FROM encoding conversion/verification in larger chunks.
> 9e596b65f4 Add "LP_DEAD item?" column to GiST pageinspect functions
>
> 10a5b35a00 Report resource usage at the end of recovery
> 7e453634bb Add additional information in the vacuum error context.
> 1ea396362b Improve logging of bad parameter values in BIND messages.
>
> 86dc90056d Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.
> a1115fa078 Postpone some more stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
> c5b7ba4e67 Postpone some stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.
>
> 7db0cd2145 Set PD_ALL_VISIBLE and visibility map bits in COPY FREEZE
> 01e658fa74 Hash support for row types
> a929e17e5a Allow run-time pruning on nested Append/MergeAppend nodes
> 8c15a29745 Allow ALTER TYPE to update an existing type's typsubscript value.
> c7aba7c14e Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays.
>
> 7b94e99960 Remove catalog function currtid()
> 926fa801ac Remove undocumented IS [NOT] OF syntax.
> cd9c1b3e19 Rename PGPROC->vacuumFlags to statusFlags
> a04daa97a4 Remove es_result_relation_info from EState.
>
> 3d351d916b Redefine pg_class.reltuples to be -1 before the first VACUUM or ANALYZE.
> fea10a6434 Rename VariableCacheData.nextFullXid to nextXid.
> 9de9294b0c Stop archive recovery if WAL generated with wal_level=minimal is found. (see also 15251c0a6)
>
> f40c6969d0 Routine usage information schema tables
>
> b4af70cb21 Simplify state managed by VACUUM.
> 4753ef37e0 Use a WaitLatch for vacuum/autovacuum sleeping
> 9dd963ae25 Recycle nbtree pages deleted during same VACUUM.
> 3c3b8a4b26 Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.
>
> ad1c36b070 Fix foreign-key selectivity estimation in the presence of constants.

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