Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

[Jonathan S. Katz]

On 5/9/24 12:03 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
see the results here:

        release-17:  188

I welcome feedback.  For some reason it was an easier job than usual.

Feedback welcome.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Attached is a proposal for the major features section. This borrows from the release announcement draft[1] and lists out features and themes that have broad user impact. This was a bit challenging for this release, because there are a lot of great features in PG17 that add up to a very special release. [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=blob;f=releases/17/release.en.md;hb=HEAD

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
index 9d69016cd6..7691ee3672 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
@@ -18,7 +18,62 @@
    </para>
 
    <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem><para>TO BE COMPLETED LATER</para></listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      New memory management system for <command>VACUUM</command>, which reduces
+      memory consumption and can improve overall vacuuming performance.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      New <acronym>SQL/JSON</acronym> capabilities, including constructors,
+      identity functions, and the <link
+      
linkend="functions-sqljson-table"><function>JSON_TABLE()</function></link>
+      function, which converts JSON data into a table representation.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Various query performance improvements, including to sequential reads
+      using streaming I/O, write throughput under high concurrency, and
+      searches over multiple values in a <link linkend="btree">btree</link>
+      index.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Logical replication now supports failover control, and <link
+      linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link> now
+      preserves replications slots on both publishers and subscribers.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      New client-side connection option, <link
+      
linkend="libpq-connect-sslnegotiation"><literal>sslnegotiation=direct</literal></link>,
+      that allows direct TLS handshakes that avoids a round-trip negotation.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <link
+       
linkend="app-pgbasebackup"><application>pg_basebackup</application></link>
+      now supports incremental backup.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <link linkend="sql-copy"><command>COPY</command></link> adds a new 
option,
+      <literal>ON_ERROR ignore</literal>, that allows a copy operation to
+      continue in the event of an error.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
 
    <para>

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