Thread: First-draft back-branch release notes are up

First-draft back-branch release notes are up

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Much less exciting than the v18 release notes, but we
still gotta do 'em.  See

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=176877f461a8b55e921f597fb217f6ab89ee019f

As usual, please send corrections by Sunday.

            regards, tom lane



Re: First-draft back-branch release notes are up

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
On Fri, May  2, 2025 at 12:39:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Much less exciting than the v18 release notes, but we
> still gotta do 'em.  See
> 
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=176877f461a8b55e921f597fb217f6ab89ee019f
> 
> As usual, please send corrections by Sunday.

They look good to me, as does my entry:

    <!--
    Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
    Branch: master [46b4ba533] 2025-04-07 21:33:42 -0400
    Branch: REL_17_STABLE [b8b1e87b7] 2025-04-07 21:33:41 -0400
    -->
         <para>
          Avoid incorrect optimizations based on <literal>IS [NOT]
          NULL</literal> tests that are applied to composite values
          (Bruce Momjian)
          <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;b8b1e87b7">§</ulink>
         </para>
        </listitem>

My commit message erroneously said "domains" instead of "composite
values".

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Re: First-draft back-branch release notes are up

From
jian he
Date:
On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Much less exciting than the v18 release notes, but we
> still gotta do 'em.  See
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=176877f461a8b55e921f597fb217f6ab89ee019f
>
> As usual, please send corrections by Sunday.
>

+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+Branch: master [95f650674] 2025-03-03 12:43:44 -0500
+Branch: REL_17_STABLE [d6dd2a02b] 2025-03-03 12:43:29 -0500
+Branch: REL_16_STABLE [edc3bccd0] 2025-03-03 12:43:29 -0500
+Branch: REL_15_STABLE [1d180931c] 2025-03-03 12:43:29 -0500
+Branch: REL_14_STABLE [c75c830e2] 2025-03-03 12:43:29 -0500
+Branch: REL_13_STABLE [aac07b562] 2025-03-03 12:43:29 -0500
+Branch: master [bd178960c] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+Branch: REL_17_STABLE [0941aadcd] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+Branch: REL_16_STABLE [053222a97] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+Branch: REL_15_STABLE [2d6cfb0cd] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+Branch: REL_14_STABLE [d31d39cfe] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+Branch: REL_13_STABLE [dd34cbfce] 2025-04-02 11:13:01 -0400
+-->
+     <para>
+      Fix <literal>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</literal> to correctly handle
+      the case of a domain type that has a default (Tom Lane, Tender Wang)
+     </para>
+
+     <para>
+      If a domain type has a default, adding a column of that type (without
+      any explicit <literal>DEFAULT</literal>
+      clause) failed to install the domain's default
+      value in existing rows, instead leaving the new column null.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>

we have two commits,
https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=d6dd2a02bae0d67ff6fbd73068dc36d0b82fc14b
and
https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=bd178960c69bae972c274af8102da9018df8196a

we should include both commit's authors...

BTW, I found that for minor releases, bug reporter is not included....



Re: First-draft back-branch release notes are up

From
Tom Lane
Date:
jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> writes:
> we have two commits,
> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=d6dd2a02bae0d67ff6fbd73068dc36d0b82fc14b
> and
> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=bd178960c69bae972c274af8102da9018df8196a

> we should include both commit's authors...

Argh --- yes, I missed you in crediting that one.  My apologies,
will fix tomorrow.

> BTW, I found that for minor releases, bug reporter is not included....

No, we generally haven't done that in release notes, only in the
commit log.  I think the only cases where we credit reporters in
the release notes are CVE-worthy security bugs.

            regards, tom lane