Re: PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 12:17:50AM -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Attached is a draft of the release announcement for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1.
> The goal of this announcement is to get people excited about testing the
> beta and highlight many of the new features.

Thanks!

> PostgreSQL 16 continues to give users to the ability grant privileged access to
> features without requiring superuser with new
> [predefined roles](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/predefined-roles.html).
> These include `pg_maintain`, which enables execution of operations such as
> `VACUUM`, `ANALYZE`, `REINDEX`, and others, and `pg_createsubscription`, which
> allows users to create a logical replication subscription. Additionally,
> starting with release, logical replication subscribers execute transactions on a
> table as the table owner, not the superuser.

[pg_use_]reserved_connections might also deserve a mention here. AFAICT
it's the only new predefined role that isn't mentioned in the announcement.
I'm okay with leaving it out if folks don't think it should make the cut.

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