Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

Hi,

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 10:44:50PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have committd the first draft of the PG 18 release notes.

Thanks for working on this!

> You can see the most current HTML-built version here:
>
> https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-18.html

I have one comment related to "per backend" statistics.

We have this:

"
Add per-backend I/O statistics reporting (Bertrand Drouvot)

The statistics are accessed via pg_stat_get_backend_io(). Per-backend statistics can be cleared via pg_stat_reset_backend_stats().
"

and

"
Add function pg_stat_get_backend_wal() to return per-backend WAL statistics (Bertrand Drouvot)
"

I think that we could mention pg_stat_reset_backend_stats() in both case, something
like:

A.

"Per-backend I/O statistics can be cleared via pg_stat_reset_backend_stats()"

and

"Per-backend WAL statistics can be cleared via pg_stat_reset_backend_stats()"

for consitency.

Or:

B. mention pg_stat_reset_backend_stats() "separately" just saying:

"
Per-backend statistics can be cleared via pg_stat_reset_backend_stats()
"

and get rid of the mention in "per-backend I/O statistics".

I'd be tempted to vote for B (so that pg_stat_reset_backend_stats() is introduced
separately): thoughts?

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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