Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 6:43 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> First Bruce, thank you for compiling the release notes draft. Comments
> inline:
>
> On 5/10/21 11:56 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:30 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can these be merged:
> >> Allow logical replication to stream long transactions to standbys (Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke)
> >> Improve the logical replication API to allow streaming large in-progress transactions (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila)
> >>
> >
> > I think we should merge the below two:
> > Add support for streaming to built-in logical replication (Vondra,
> > Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Ajin Cherian, Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich)
> >
> > Allow logical replication to stream long transactions to standbys
> > (Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke)
> >
> > and say something like:
> > Allow logical replication to stream long in-progress transactions to standbys
> > Previously transactions that exceeded logical_decoding_work_mem were
> > written to disk until the transaction completed.
>
> I was going to post a question about the above bullet point(s), so this
> clarification helps -- thanks!
>
> Two comments on the above:
>
> 1. I do believe ther eis a missing "Tomas" in the first release note.
> 2. Would you want to s/standbys/subscribers/ given an instance can be in
> read/write mode but still receive logical changes?
>

Right, that makes sense to me.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.