Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:01:41PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:40:45AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Should any of these be included?
>
> New SQL-accessible functionality should be included:
> > 8c15a29745 Allow ALTER TYPE to update an existing type's typsubscript value.

OK, text is:

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Author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2020-12-11 [8c15a2974] Allow ALTER TYPE to update an existing type's typsubscri
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<para>
Allow ALTER TYPE to specify or remove a SUBSCRIPT handler
(Tom Lane)
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> I'm undecided on this one:
> > 7db0cd2145 Set PD_ALL_VISIBLE and visibility map bits in COPY FREEZE
>
> People who didn't used to use FREEZE (because it didn't work or otherwise)
> might want to start using it.

Yes, that seems very important:

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Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2021-01-17 [7db0cd214] Set PD_ALL_VISIBLE and visibility map bits in COPY FREEZ
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<para>
Have COPY FREEZE appropriately update page visibility bits
(Anastasia Lubennikova, Pavan Deolasee, Jeff Janes)
</para>
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This one one of those, "I must be confused, since we certainly already
did this before."

> I'm withdrawing these, as modifications to existing log messages don't need to
> be included:
>
> > 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.

OK.

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