Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 09:22:59PM +0800, jian he wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 12:04 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes; you can
> > see the results here:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
> >
> > It will be improved until the final release. The item count is 188,
> > which is similar to recent releases:
> >
>
> This thread mentioned performance.
> actually this[1] refactored some interval aggregation related functions,
> which will make these two aggregate function: avg(interval), sum(interval)
> run faster, especially avg(interval).
> see [2].
> well, I guess, this is a kind of niche performance improvement to be
> mentioned separately.
>
>
> these 3 items need to be removed, because of
> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=8aee330af55d8a759b2b73f5a771d9d34a7b887f
>
> >> Add stratnum GiST support function (Paul A. Jungwirth)
>
> >> Allow foreign keys to reference WITHOUT OVERLAPS primary keys (Paul A. Jungwirth)
> >> The keyword PERIOD is used for this purpose.
>
> >> Allow PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints to use WITHOUT OVERLAPS for non-overlapping exclusion constraints (Paul A. Jungwirth)
>
>
> [1] https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=519fc1bd9e9d7b408903e44f55f83f6db30742b7
> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCUJ0xjyQUL7SHKxJ5a%2BDm5pjoq-WO3NtkDLi6c76rh58w%40mail.gmail.com

Agreed, I have applied the attached patch to make the release notes
current.

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