Re: PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 release announcement draft

Thanks for writing that up. It's always exciting to see this each year.

On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 13:45, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> * Please indicate if you believe there's a notable omission, or if we
> should omit any of these callouts

I'd say the streaming read stuff added in b5a9b18cd and subsequent
commits like b7b0f3f27 and 041b96802 are worth a mention. I'd be happy
to see this over the IS NOT NULL qual stuff that I worked on in there
or even the AVX512 bit counting. Speeding up a backwater aggregate
function is nice, but IMO, not compatible with reducing the number
reads.

There's some benchmarking in a youtube video:
https://youtu.be/QAYzWAlxCYc?si=L0UT6Lrf067ZBv46&t=237

> * Please indicate if a description is confusing - I'm happy to rewrite
> to ensure it's clearer.
>
> Please provide feedback no later than Wed 2024-05-22 18:00 UTC.

The only other thing I saw from a quick read was a stray "the" in "the
copy proceed even if the there is an error inserting a row."

David