Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 08:24:22AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I think these should be merged:
>
> | Remove factorial operators ! and !! (Mark Dilger)
> | Add documentation for the factorial() function (Peter Eisentraut)
>
> | This can be disabled by turning client options "sslsni" off.
>
> option (no ess)

Fixed.

> | Allow REINDEX to process all child tables and indexes of a partitioned table (Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier)
>
> It should actually say "all child tables or indexes of a partitioned relation",
> since you can REINDEX INDEX partitioned_index.

OK, fixed, good point. I had not thought of indexes.

> | Add bit_xor XOR aggregate function (Alexey Bashtanov)
>
> Remove XOR ?

Uh, I thought XOR was describing the function, since the name might not
be clear. No?

> | Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators (Mark Dilger)
> | pg_dump and pg_upgrade will warn if post-fix operators are being dumped.
>
> postfix not post-fix

Oops, fixed. :-)

> | Remove temporary files after backend crashes (Euler Taveira)
>
> crash (singular)

Uh, I thought I would say "all crashes" here.

> | Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound (Noah Misch)
> | This should reduce the number of failures without warning.
>
> I'd say: This should reduce the possibility of failures that occur without
> having issued warnings about wraparound.

OK, added, thanks.

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