Re: PG 10 release notes

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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