Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 02:29:49PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 13:19, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I have completed the first draft of the PG 19 release notes:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-19.html
>
> Many thanks for your efforts here.
>
> "Improve performance of internal row formation (David Rowley)"
>
> It's really deformation, not formation. As far as I know, nothing in
> v19 sped up tuple formation.

Changed to:

Improve performance of internal row deformation (David Rowley)
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Thanks.

> I also think Nathan's work on autovacuum table prioritisation
> (d7965d65f) is worth a mention. There were concerns there that it
> might cause trouble for people who (for some reason) get best results
> from the previous pg_class-ordered priority. Having something in the
> notes about this might help direct someone towards why they're seeing
> autovacuum behave differently after upgrading.

Yikes, so I collected commits on March 26, but when I went to add new
commits, I used March 27 as the start date, and missed all the late
March 26 commits. I should have started on March 26 to get
later-in-the-day commits!

I went back and looked at the commits I missed and the one you pointed
out is the only relevant one, so that is good.

Applied patch attached.

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