Re: Release 14 Schedule

On 9/22/21 11:15 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 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?

+1

>> 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.

Leaning towards keeping it. If we subbed it, I'd suggest a statement on
the monitoring/observability improvements.

>> 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.

Given some recent news I saw floating around, I'd agree with this.

My suggestion on ordering:

- Numerous performance ...
- B-tree...
- Subscripting ...
- Range types ...
- Stored ...
- Extended ...
- SEARCH / CYCLE ...
- libpq ...
- TOAST ...
(- emergency mode vacuum ...)

Jonathan