Re: PostgreSQL 17 release announcement draft

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 17 release announcement draft
Date: 2024-09-07 18:05:00
Message-ID: f6cbc634-81d4-4263-8434-86fa3537fc1e@postgresql.org
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On 9/6/24 6:40 PM, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 19:04, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> Please see v2 attached. As per original note, please provide feedback
>> before Mon, Sep 9 @ 12:00 UTC so we can begin the translation process.
>
> The following sentence was part of the beta1 release announcement, but
> is not part of this draft. Did that happen by accident or was it done
> on purpose? If on purpose, I'm curious why since I contributed the
> feature.
>
> "PostgreSQL 17 also provides better support for asynchronous and more
> secure query cancellation routines, which drivers can adopt using the
> libpq API."

The beta announcement typically calls out more of the features available
to ensure we can get folks testing them. Features that target API
integrations/internals aren't usually mentioned in the GA announcement.

Jonathan

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