Re: add list of major features to the v19 release notes

[Jonathan S. Katz]

On 9/18/26 11:52 AM, Nathan Bossart wrote:

Thanks for the patch.

Thanks for the review - sorry for the delay, for some reason this didn't hit my inbox.

nit: extra space before "command"

Fixed.

s/which can help increase/which can improve

Accepted.

nit: extra "and"

Fixed.

Hm.  Can we be more descriptive here?  Maybe something like "Support for
read-your-writes query patterns on standbys via the new..."

Doing some research, it seems the most common word is "consistency". I opted for that. LMK what you think.

Per commits 1a562a2661b and e527bf17d04, I think we're just calling it
"WAIT" and not "WAIT FOR".

Ack; I'll refrain from bikeshedding. Adjusted.

+      <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">user-defined prioritization of 
autovacuuming</link>.

IMHO this makes it sound like users will be able to choose the priority of
each individual table, when we actually are just giving them a handful of
coarse controls.  I think we ought to emphasize the scoring system instead.
In theory, most users shouldn't need to adjust anything and the
prioritization will "Just Work" for them.

Ack; I took a read of the docs and saw we were referring to it as autovacuuming prioritization, so tried:

+ <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">autovacuuming prioritization</link>
+ through a new scoring system.

if you think that makes sense based on that. Patch attached.

Thanks,

Jonathan


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml
index 0266d6a98e0..82063b87c0b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
  <formalpara>
   <title>Release date:</title>
-  <para>2026-??-??, AS OF 2026-09-14</para>
+  <para>2026-??-??, AS OF 2026-09-18</para>
  </formalpara>
 
   <sect2 id="release-19-highlights">
@@ -20,58 +20,58 @@
    <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      A new <link linkend="sql-repack"><command>REPACK</command></link> command
-      that reclaims disk space and reorganizes table contents, combining the
-      functionality of the existing <command>VACUUM FULL</command> and
-      <command>CLUSTER</command> commands.  Its <literal>CONCURRENTLY</literal>
-      option allows repacking without blocking reads and writes to the table.
+      New <link linkend="sql-repack"><command>REPACK</command></link> command
+      that reclaims disk space and reorganizes table contents, which can 
improve
+      query performance. <literal>REPACK CONCURRENTLY</literal> allows 
repacking
+      without blocking reads and writes to the table.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      Logical replication now
-      <link linkend="logical-replication-sequences">replicates sequence 
values</link>
-      and can be enabled without a server restart when
-      <xref linkend="guc-wal-level"/> is set to <literal>replica</literal>.
+      <link 
linkend="pgplanadvice"><application>pg_plan_advice</application></link>
+      extension for controlling query planner decisions and 
+      <link 
linkend="pgstashadvice"><application>pg_stash_advice</application></link>
+      extension that applies plan advice automatically based on the query.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      Autovacuum can now use
-      <link linkend="guc-autovacuum-max-parallel-workers">parallel worker 
processes</link>
-      to vacuum a table's indexes, and a
-      <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">new scoring system</link> prioritizes
-      the tables that most need vacuuming or analyzing.
+      Better performance in many areas, including automatic scaling of the
+      number of I/O worker processes, quicker foreign-key checks, and further
+      planning and execution optimizations.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      A new <link linkend="sql-wait"><command>WAIT</command></link>
-      command that waits until a standby has replayed changes up to a chosen
-      point, thereby supporting <quote>read-your-writes</quote> query patterns
-      on standbys.
+      Logical replication can now be enabled without a server restart when
+      <xref linkend="guc-wal-level"/> is set to <literal>replica</literal>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      A new
-      <link 
linkend="pgplanadvice"><application>pg_plan_advice</application></link>
-      extension for stabilizing and controlling the query planner's decisions,
-      and a companion
-      <link 
linkend="pgstashadvice"><application>pg_stash_advice</application></link>
-      extension that applies this advice automatically based on the query.
+      Logical replication of
+      <link linkend="logical-replication-sequences">sequence values</link>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      Better performance in many areas, including automatic scaling of the
-      number of I/O worker processes, quicker foreign-key checks, and further
-      planning and execution optimizations.
+      Support <quote>read-your-writes</quote> consistency on standbys with the
+      new
+      <link linkend="sql-wait"><command>WAIT</command></link> command.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <link linkend="guc-autovacuum-max-parallel-workers">Parallel autovacuum 
of table indexes</link>
+      and
+      <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">autovacuuming prioritization</link>
+      through a new scoring system.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

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