Re: Detailed release notes

> On 26 Jul 2024, at 14:30, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
>
> I'm now using version 14 and planning to update to 17 as soon as it comes available. Then looking carefully to release notes to see exactly what I'll get when updated I see lots of unexplained features. Just because release notes does not explain exactly what that change does. And I don't have a way to get what code or messages generated that feature.

There is a way, but it's not exactly visible from reading the release notes.

> • Allow query nodes to be run in parallel in more cases (Tom Lane)
> Cool this feature, but when and what kind of query will use this ?

Reading the source of the release notes will show a comment which links to the
commit. The source can be seen here:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/REL_17_STABLE/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml

..and the comment for this item is:

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Author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2023-07-14 [e08d74ca1] Allow plan nodes with initPlans to be considered paralle
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<para>
Allow query nodes to be run in parallel in more cases (Tom Lane)
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</listitem>

This comment tells us the relevant commit is e08d74ca1, which can be found here:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/e08d74ca1

This in turn leads to the mailinglist discussion for this specific feature:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1129530.1681317832@sss.pgh.pa.us

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Daniel Gustafsson