On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 01:46:29AM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 04:45, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > > > I have committd the first draft of the PG 18 release notes. The item > > count looks strong: > > Thanks for all the work. Some notes: > > 1. There's currently no mention that protocol version 3.2 was > introduced in this release. I'm not sure where/how this should be > mentioned, but I definitely think it should be somewhere. It's a > pretty major change. One option is to replace/amend the "Make cancel > request keys 256 bits" item. Maybe replace that with something like: > "Postgres 18 introduces protocol version 3.2. This is the first new > protocol version since 3.0, which was introduced in Postgres 7.4. This > new protocol version 3.2 allows a server to use longer cancel request > keys. When the client advertises support for protocol version 3.2 (or > higher) Postgres 18 will use a cancel key size of 256 bits."
Okay, I added a mention next to the libpq version function entries. > 2. Obviously biased since it's my contribution, but I think d38bab5 > might deserve a mention. I disagree. pgbench limits like this are not something we give much detail around error avoidance to in the release notes. > 3. The "Add PQtrace() output..." commitlist should also contain 7adec2d5fc Added. Patch attached. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml index 2654960eef8..ed7fa5d903f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml @@ -2146,6 +2146,10 @@ Author: Robert Haas <rh...@postgresql.org> Add function PQfullProtocolVersion() to report the full, including minor, protocol version number (Jacob Champion, Jelte Fennema-Nio) <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;cdb6b0fdb">§</ulink> </para> + +<para> +This release introduces wire protocol version 3.2. +</para> </listitem> <!-- @@ -2196,6 +2200,8 @@ Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> 2024-08-16 [b8b3f861f] libpq: Trace all messages received from the server Author: Robert Haas <rh...@postgresql.org> 2025-02-24 [e87c14b19] libpq: Trace all NegotiateProtocolVersion fields +Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> +2024-08-09 [7adec2d5f] libpq: Trace StartupMessage/SSLRequest/GSSENCRequest cor --> <listitem>
