On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:31:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Justin Pryzby <[email protected]> writes:
> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Hmm, I just saw this after spending an afternoon editing the release
> >>> notes. I'll try to merge it with what I did.
>
> > Feel free to send your own patch and I'll resolve conflicts and resend
> > proposed
> > changes.
>
> I've pushed updates merging Jonathan's last with my work. Please
> look over what's in HEAD and see if you want to propose additional
> changes.
Find attached what's left.
Justin
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml
index 188222f..cdf41af 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add support for <literal>PRIMARY KEY</literal>, <literal>FOREIGN
- KEY</literal>, indexes, and triggers on partitioned tables
+ Add support on partitioned tables for <literal>PRIMARY
+ KEY</literal>, <literal>FOREIGN KEY</literal>, indexes, and triggers
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
<command>CREATE INDEX</command> can now use parallel processing
- while building B-tree indexes
+ while building a B-tree index
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Many other useful performance improvements, including a significant
- speedup to <command>ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN</command> with a
- non-null column default, as it no longer rewrites the table data
+ Many other useful performance improvements, including the ability to avoid
+ a table rewrite when using <command>ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN</command>
+ with a non-null column default.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -587,15 +587,18 @@
-->
<para>
- Allow indexes on a partitioned table to be automatically created
- in new child partitions (Álvaro Herrera)
+ Support indexes on partitioned tables (Álvaro Herrera)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is not a global index, but rather a mechanism to create an indexes
+ on each partition of a partitioned table.
</para>
<para>
The new command <link linkend="sql-alterindex"><command>ALTER
- INDEX ATTACH PARTITION</command></link> allows indexes to be
- attached to partitions. This does not behave as a global index
- since the contents are private to each index.
+ INDEX ATTACH PARTITION</command></link> allows an index on a partition
+ to be inherited by the index on its partitioned table.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -733,8 +736,8 @@
-->
<para>
- Perform aggregation on each partition, and then merge the results
- (Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas)
+ Allow aggregate functions on partitioned tables to be evaluated
+ directly on partitions. (Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
@@ -1101,8 +1104,8 @@ same commits as above
-->
<para>
- Improve optimizer's row count estimates for <literal>EXISTS</literal>
- and <literal>NOT EXISTS</literal> queries (Tom Lane)
+ Improve row count estimates for <literal>EXISTS</literal> and
+ <literal>NOT EXISTS</literal> queries (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1146,7 +1149,7 @@ same commits as above
<para>
This feature requires <application>LLVM</application> to be
- available. It is not currently enabled by default, even in
+ available. It is disabled by default, even in
builds that support it.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1564,11 +1567,11 @@ same commits as above
<para>
Allow server options related to memory and file sizes to be
- specified as a number of bytes (Beena Emerson)
+ specified in units of bytes (Beena Emerson)
</para>
<para>
- The new unit is <quote>B</quote>. This is in addition to the
+ The new suffix is <quote>B</quote>. This is in addition to the
existing units <quote>kB</quote>, <quote>MB</quote>, <quote>GB</quote>
and <quote>TB</quote>.
</para>
@@ -1605,7 +1608,7 @@ same commits as above
-->
<para>
- Retain <acronym>WAL</acronym> data for only a single checkpoint
+ Retain <acronym>WAL</acronym> data for a single checkpoint, only.
(Simon Riggs)
</para>
@@ -1801,6 +1804,7 @@ same commits as above
</para>
<para>
+DOES THIS NEED TO BE IN "COMPATIBILITY NOTES"?
Also, if any table mentioned in <command>VACUUM</command> uses
a column list, then the <command>ANALYZE</command> keyword must be
supplied; previously, <command>ANALYZE</command> was implied in
@@ -2199,8 +2203,7 @@ same commits as above
<para>
Add <application>psql</application> command <literal>\gdesc</literal>
- to display the column names and types of the query output (Pavel
- Stehule)
+ to display the names and types of the columns in query results (Pavel Stehule)
</para>
</listitem>
