Re: add list of major features to the v19 release notes

> On 23 Sep 2026, at 5:51 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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> On 9/18/26 11:52 AM, Nathan Bossart wrote:
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>> Thanks for the patch.
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> Thanks for the review - sorry for the delay, for some reason this didn't hit my inbox.
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>> nit: extra space before "command"
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> Fixed.
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>> s/which can help increase/which can improve
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> Accepted.
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>> nit: extra "and"
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> Fixed.
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>> Hm. Can we be more descriptive here? Maybe something like "Support for
>> read-your-writes query patterns on standbys via the new..."
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> Doing some research, it seems the most common word is "consistency". I opted for that. LMK what you think.
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>> Per commits 1a562a2661b and e527bf17d04, I think we're just calling it
>> "WAIT" and not "WAIT FOR".
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> Ack; I'll refrain from bikeshedding. Adjusted.
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>>> + <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">user-defined prioritization of autovacuuming</link>.
>> IMHO this makes it sound like users will be able to choose the priority of
>> each individual table, when we actually are just giving them a handful of
>> coarse controls. I think we ought to emphasize the scoring system instead.
>> In theory, most users shouldn't need to adjust anything and the
>> prioritization will "Just Work" for them.
> Ack; I took a read of the docs and saw we were referring to it as autovacuuming prioritization, so tried:
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> + <link linkend="autovacuum-priority">autovacuuming prioritization</link>
> + through a new scoring system.
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> if you think that makes sense based on that. Patch attached.
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> Thanks,
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> Jonathan
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> <v4-doc-release-19-major.diff>

Hi,

Would it be worth mentioning the new jsonpath string methods in the release highlights? (My patch —> biased)

The overview currently focuses mostly on operational and performance improvements, and this could provide a useful application-developer-facing addition.

Its value is in how the methods compose: trimming whitespace, normalizing case, replacing text, and extracting string components directly within JSON path expressions.
This makes common JSON querying and data-cleaning tasks easier to express without moving those operations into surrounding SQL.
Also note that 18 itself was thin on JSON improvements it

Possible wording: “Expanded SQL/JSON path support with string methods for text normalization and extraction, enabling more expressive JSON queries.”