Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 12:50 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks!

I got the parse error after applying the patch:

release-14.sgml:3562: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8,
indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xE9 0x20 0x53 0x61
(Juan Jos Santamara Flecha)
^

Is that a problem with my environment?

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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