On 9/20/24 12:55 PM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
On Fri, 2024-09-20 at 10:02 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:Attached is a proposal for the major features section. This borrows from the release announcement draft[1] and lists out features and themes that have broad user impact. This was a bit challenging for this release, because there are a lot of great features in PG17 that add up to a very special release.Feedback welcome.I would have added the platform-independent binary collation provider. And perhaps "pg_createsubscriber": that can be a game-changer for setting up logical replication.
I was on the fence about that, mostly because it'd make that sentence too much of a mouthful, but I do agree.
IIRC (didn't get to check) we did have a precedent for sublists in the major features, so I broke this one up. Please see attached.
Jonathan
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</para>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>TO BE COMPLETED LATER</para></listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ New memory management system for <command>VACUUM</command>, which reduces
+ memory consumption and can improve overall vacuuming performance.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ New <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> capabilities, including constructors,
+ identity functions, and the <link
+
linkend="functions-sqljson-table"><function>JSON_TABLE()</function></link>
+ function, which converts JSON data into a table representation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Various query performance improvements, including to sequential reads
+ using streaming I/O, write throughput under high concurrency, and
+ searches over multiple values in a <link linkend="btree">btree</link>
+ index.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Logical replication enhancements, including:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Failover control
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+
linkend="app-pgcreatesubscriber"><application>pg_createsubscriber</application></link>,
+ a utility that logical replicas from physical standbys
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+ linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link> now
+ preserves replication slots on both publishers and subscribers
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ New client-side connection option, <link
+
linkend="libpq-connect-sslnegotiation"><literal>sslnegotiation=direct</literal></link>,
+ that allows direct TLS handshakes that avoids a round-trip negotation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+
linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>
+ now supports incremental backup.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="sql-copy"><command>COPY</command></link> adds a new
option,
+ <literal>ON_ERROR ignore</literal>, that allows a copy operation to
+ continue in the event of an error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
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