Re: Release 14 Schedule

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 5:12 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > On 9/19/21 12:32 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 01:37:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> We don't yet have a list-of-major-features for the v14 release notes.
> >>> Anybody care to propose one?
>
> > I can try proposing some wording on this in a bit; I'm working on the
> > overdue draft of the press release, and thought I'd chime in here first.
>
> I looked over Jonathan's draft press release [1] and tried to boil it down
> to our usual ten-or-so bullet points for the release notes' introductory
> paragraph. I ended up with this (didn't bother with markup yet):
>
> -----
> Stored procedures can now return data via OUT parameters.
>
> The SQL-standard SEARCH and CYCLE options for common table expressions
> have been implemented.
>
> Range types have been extended by adding multiranges, which allow
> representation of noncontiguous data ranges.
>
> Subscripting can now be applied to any data type for which it is a useful
> notation, not only arrays. In this release, JSONB and hstore have gained
> subscripting operators.
>
> Numerous performance improvements have been made for parallel queries,
> heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and
> vacuuming. Notably, foreign data wrappers can now make use of query
> parallelism.

"foreign data wrappers and stored procedures/functions" maybe?

> B-tree index updates are managed more efficiently, reducing index bloat.
>
> Extended statistics can now be collected on expressions, allowing
> better planning results for complex queries.
>
> libpq now has the ability to pipeline multiple queries, which can boost
> throughput over high-latency connections.
>
> TOAST data can optionally be compressed with LZ4 instead of the traditional
> pglz algorithm.
> -----
>
> I'm not entirely sure that the TOAST item should make the cut,

I think it should be t here.

> but I feel fairly good about the rest of this list. Thoughts?

I have a feeling emergency mode vacuum fits on that list. Not in the
press release, but in the major features list of the release notes.

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