Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On 2024-05-14 Tu 20:39, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 03:32:55PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 2024-05-09 Th 00:03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes; you can
>>> see the results here:
>>>
>>> https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
>>>
>>> It will be improved until the final release. The item count is 188,
>>> which is similar to recent releases:
>>>
>>> release-10: 189
>>> release-11: 170
>>> release-12: 180
>>> release-13: 178
>>> release-14: 220
>>> release-15: 184
>>> release-16: 206
>>> release-17: 188
>>>
>>> I welcome feedback. For some reason it was an easier job than usual.
>>
>> I don't like blowing my own horn but I feel commit 3311ea86ed "Introduce a
>> non-recursive JSON parser" should be in the release notes. This isn't
>> something that's purely internal, but it could be used by an extension or a
>> client program to parse JSON documents that are too large to handle with the
>> existing API.
>>
>> Maybe "Introduce an incremental JSON parser" would have been a better
>> headline.
> Well, this gets into a level of detail that is beyond the average
> reader. I think at that level people will need to read the git logs or
> review the code. Do we use it for anything yet?

Yes, certainly, it's used in handling backup manifests. Without it we
can't handle huge manifests. See commits ea7b4e9a2a and 222e11a10a.

Other uses are in the works.

cheers

andrew

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