Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes
Date
Msg-id 20170425150157.GO7513@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes  (Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes  (Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 06:51:47AM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 25/04/17 03:31, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have committed the first draft of the Postgres 10 release notes.  They
> > are current as of two days ago, and I will keep them current.  Please
> > give me any feedback you have.
> > 
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > The only unusual thing is that this release has ~180 items while most
> > recent release have had ~220.  The pattern I see that there are more
> > large features in this release than previous ones.
> > 
> 
> Well I think for example
> 
> > Optimizer
> > 
> >     Add the ability to compute a correlation ratio and the number of distinct values on several columns (Tomas
Vondra,David Rowley)
 
> > 
> 
> could be easily 2 or 3 items (explicitly defining additional statistics,
> multicolumn ndistinct and functional dependencies).

Yes, we have more wholistic improvements that are made of many complex
parts, e.g. logical replication, partitioning.

> I also wonder if ability to run SQL queries on walsender connected to a
> database is worth mentioning (replication=database kind of connection).

Uh, why would that be important to users?

> Or the ability of logical decoding to follow timeline switches.

I didn't think logical decoding was really more than a proof-of-concept
until now.

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