Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:01:00PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:49:21AM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> OK, but I need more information on how users will see a difference based
> >> on this commit:
>
> +1. That would be good to have in the release notes.
>
> > I think that since with this commit the server on Windows can handle a
> > file over 4GB, COPY FROM loading data from an over 4GB file and
> > pg_dump dumping a large table work now.
>
> Segment files or WAL files larger than 4GB also gain from that.
> Anything for which we may finish to do a stat() on benefits from this
> change if running on Windows. For pg_dump, a workaround in PG <= 13
> was to use --no-sync as the stat() failure came from files with a size
> larger than 4GB. That's rather sad as that means sacrifying
> durability for more usability :(

OK, I went with this text and put it in the Source Code section since it
applies to several layers of Postgres.

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