Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Ullrich writes: > * Tom Lane wrote: >> To my mind, an option that's set to 1 is "enabled". Should the second >> para read "Do not disable ..."? Or maybe we should reverse the sense >> of the flag, so that the default state can be 0 == disabled? > Well spotted, thanks. It should be "di

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Tom Lane wrote: Christian Ullrich writes: I suggest writing "use the Kerberos realm name for authentication instead of the NetBIOS name" either in place of the existing description or together with it. OK, how about this: Add new SSPI authentication parameters compat_rea

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Is it really sensible to group f1f5ec1ef together with the others? I > > think that one should be its own entry. > > Peter seemed happy with the idea, cf > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cam3swzsoouy3equzic32he-fxyccxfv5rkots-8of20rzgc...@mail.g

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Is it really sensible to group f1f5ec1ef together with the others? I > think that one should be its own entry. Peter seemed happy with the idea, cf http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cam3swzsoouy3equzic32he-fxyccxfv5rkots-8of20rzgc...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Speed up sorting of uuid, bytea, and char(n) fields by using abbreviated keys (Peter Geoghegan) Support for abbreviated keys has also been added to the non-default operator classes text_pattern_ops, varchar_pattern_ops

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Ullrich writes: > * Tom Lane wrote: > + > +Add new SSPI authentication parameters compat_realm > +and upn_usename, to make it possible to make SSPI > +work more like GSSAPI (Christian Ullrich) > + > It is upn_username, not usename. Typo in the commi

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Janes writes: > This item: > "Avoid some spurious waits for AccessExclusiveLocks in hot-standby queries" > Should be something like > Avoid some unnecessary cancellations of hot-standy queries due to > AccessExclusiveLocks replay. > It was the cancellations, not the waits, which were spur

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-06 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Tom Lane wrote: I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal of work to do yet: + + +Add new SSPI authentication parameters compat_realm +and upn_usename, to make it possible to make SSPI +work more like GSSAPI (Christian Ullrich) +

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Jeff Janes
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal > of work to do yet: Thanks for assembling the notes. This item: "Avoid some spurious waits for AccessExclusiveLocks in hot-standby queries" Should be something like Avoid

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Amit Kapila
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > * As is somewhat customary for early drafts of the notes, I've made no > > attempt to call out which are the most significant changes. I've not > > tried to isolate the non-backwards-compa

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andres Freund wrote: > On 2016-05-05 13:32:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > + > + > +Add pg_config > +system view to expose the same information available from > +the pg_config utility (Joe Conway) > + > + > > Hm. Rereading this I'm wondering whether pg_con

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Geoghegan writes: >> I think that there could stand to be some consolidation among the >> items that I authored. > > After thinking a bit, I merged all the abbreviated-keys stuff including > the ordered-set-aggregate item. Let me know if th

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan writes: > I think that there could stand to be some consolidation among the > items that I authored. After thinking a bit, I merged all the abbreviated-keys stuff including the ordered-set-aggregate item. Let me know if that seems wrong. > Also, I personally don't really think o

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > wal-writer-flush-after doesn't really fit into this section, it wasn't > affected by any of the above commits, and the change in 9.6 is to make > it *less* aggressive in flushing (as you listed in a separate entry). I hadn't focused on this before, but wal_writer_flush_aft

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2016-05-05 13:32:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > * Bruce usually likes to sprinkle the notes with a whole lot of links > to the main docs. I've only bothered with links for new GUCs and system > views. I guess it'd be worthwhile to add a links for new SQL functions as well. > Please review

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can. I think that there could stand to be some consolidation among the items that I authored. Firstly, there's the abbreviated key stuff. The 9.5 notes described the abbreviated keys feature as fol

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Masahiko Sawada writes: > Very minor comment but I'd like to unify my name to First Last (i.g., > Masahiko Sawada). Will fix, thanks. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://ww

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan writes: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Oh, now I see why it's not here: it was back-patched into 9.5, so it >> will not be a new feature in 9.6.0. It will be listed in the 9.5.3 >> release notes, instead. > I was really hoping that the OpenSSL bugfix patch

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Masahiko Sawada
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal > of work to do yet: > > * The section about parallel query could probably stand to be fleshed out, > but I'm unsure what to say. Somebody who's worked on that should provide >

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, I had decided that wasn't worth listing, but now I can't think >> why :-(. Will add it. > > Oh, now I see why it's not here: it was back-patched into 9.5, so it > will not be a new feature in 9.6.0. It will be listed in the 9.5.3 > release

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Michael Paquier writes: >> Are you not adding VS2015 support in those notes? > Hmm, I had decided that wasn't worth listing, but now I can't think > why :-(. Will add it. Oh, now I see why it's not here: it was back-patched into 9.5, so it will not be a new feature in 9.6.0. It will

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Vitaly Burovoy writes: > 1. "YUriy Zhuravlev" should be "Yury Zhuravlev" > Previously[1] he had the first version in his signature, but I guess > it was misconfiguring, now[2] hi has second version. Ah. Now that I look, I see we've got three different ASCII-izations of his name in the notes, non

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Vitaly Burovoy
On 5/5/16, Tom Lane wrote: > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can. > > regards, tom lane 1. "YUriy Zhuravlev" should be "Yury Zhuravlev" Previously[1] he had the first version in his signature, but I guess it was misconfiguring, now[2] hi has second version.

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier writes: > Are you not adding VS2015 support in those notes? Hmm, I had decided that wasn't worth listing, but now I can't think why :-(. Will add it. > Petr Jelinek is a > co-author btw, he's missing from the credits in 0fb54de. OK, thanks. regards, tom

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: >> On 2016-05-05 16:25:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >>> This was basically an attempt to cure a defect in 48354581a and could >>> perhaps be lumped under that item. > >> It's also an independent performance improvement (sadly

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2016-05-05 16:25:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> This was basically an attempt to cure a defect in 48354581a and could >> perhaps be lumped under that item. > It's also an independent performance improvement (sadly), and has the > potential for issues; so there's *some*

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Andres Freund
On 2016-05-05 16:25:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can. > > Overall, I think this looks pretty great. Thanks for pulling it > together so quickly. +1 > + > + > +Use atomic operati

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can. Overall, I think this looks pretty great. Thanks for pulling it together so quickly. Various nitpicky comments below. + +Extend relations multiple blocks at a time (Dilip Kumar

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > * As is somewhat customary for early drafts of the notes, I've made no > attempt to call out which are the most significant changes. I've not > tried to isolate the non-backwards-compatible items, either. There was quite a bit of discussion of th

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal > of work to do yet: > > * The section about parallel query could probably stand to be fleshed out, > but I'm unsure what to say. Somebody who's worked on that should provide >

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" writes: > On 05/05/2016 10:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal >> of work to do yet: > Just for the cheap seats, I assume they are pushed to git? http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=c311f

Re: [HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 05/05/2016 10:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote: I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal of work to do yet: * The section about parallel query could probably stand to be fleshed out, but I'm unsure what to say. Somebody who's worked on that should provide some text. * Bru

[HACKERS] Initial release notes created for 9.6

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
I've pushed a first cut at release notes for 9.6. There's a good deal of work to do yet: * The section about parallel query could probably stand to be fleshed out, but I'm unsure what to say. Somebody who's worked on that should provide some text. * Bruce usually likes to sprinkle the notes wit