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Activity Earlier In The Year

Doc: Make logical replication examples executable in bulk
Amit Kapila: To improve the usability of logical replication examples, we need to enable bulk copy-pasting of DML/DDL series. Currently, output command tags and prompts disrupt this workflow.

pg_dump: Adjust reltuples from 0 to -1 for dumps of older versions
Nathan Bossart: Before v14, a reltuples value of 0 was ambiguous: it could either mean the relation is empty, or it could mean that it hadn't yet been vacuumed or analyzed.

Doc: add pre-branch task to run src/tools/copyright.pl
Tom Lane: It's common for some files with last year's copyright date to sneak into the tree between early January (when we normally run copyright.pl) and feature freeze.

Make our usage of memset_s() conform strictly to the C11 standard
Tom Lane: Per the letter of the C11 standard, one must #define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ as 1 before including <string.h> in order to have access to memset_s().

Add explicit initialization for all PlannerGlobal fields
Richard Guo: When creating a new PlannerGlobal node in standard_planner(), most fields are explicitly initialized, but a few are not.

Add tab-complete for ALTER DOMAIN ADD [CONSTRAINT]
Álvaro Herrera: We can add tab-completion with "CHECK (" and "NOT NULL" after ALTER DOMAIN ADD [CONSTRAINT].

Add support for runtime arguments in injection points
Michael Paquier: The macros INJECTION_POINT() and INJECTION_POINT_CACHED() are extended with an optional argument that can be passed down to the callback attached when an injection point is run, giving to callbacks the possibility to manipulate a stack state given by the caller.

Suppress unnecessary explicit sorting for EPQ mergejoin path
Richard Guo: When building a ForeignPath for a joinrel, if there's a possibility that EvalPlanQual will be executed, we must identify a suitable path for EPQ checks.

doc: Add link to table
Peter Eisentraut: Formal tables should generally have an xref in the text that points to them.

doc PG 18 relnotes: add GROUP BY column elimination item
Bruce Momjian: With a nod to PG 9.

PostgreSQL Release Tags

Support SSL_R_VERSION_TOO_LOW when using LibreSSL
Daniel Gustafsson: The SSL_R_VERSION_TOO_LOW error reason is supported in LibreSSL since LibreSSL 3.6.3, shipped in OpenBSD 7.2.

Log OpenSSL version in ./configure output
Michael Paquier: This information is useful to know when scanning buildfarm results, and it is already displayed in Meson.

meson: Improve PG_VERSION_STR generation
Andres Freund: Previously the host operating system and 32/64 bit were not included and the build machine's cpu was used, which is potentially wrong for cross builds.

Fix ALTER COLLATION "default" REFRESH VERSION.
Jeff Davis: Issue a helpful error message rather than an internal error. Discussion:

Require version 0.98 of Test::More for TAP tests
Andrew Dunstan: This means that the subtest feature will be available for use. We expect that this change will make prairiedog go red until it is updated, but other buildfarm animals should be fine. Discussion:

doc: Fix link reference for PGSSLMAXPROTOCOLVERSION
Michael Paquier: The link was pointing to the minimum protocol version.

nbtree: BTREE_[MIN|NOVAC]_VERSION comment tweaks
Peter Geoghegan: Author: Peter Geoghegan

Automate the maintenance of SO_MINOR_VERSION for our shared libraries
Tom Lane: Up to now we've manually adjusted these numbers in several different Makefiles at the start of each development cycle.

Advance PG_CONTROL_VERSION.
Tom Lane: This should have been done in commit 73c986adde5d73a5 which added several new fields to pg_control, and again in commit 5028f22f6eb05798 which changed the CRC algorithm, but it wasn't.

Tab complete CREATE EXTENSION .. VERSION.
Robert Haas: Jeff Janes

Most Popular This Year

extension_control_path
Peter Eisentraut: The new GUC specifies a path to look for extension control files.

Add two attributes to pg_stat_database for parallel workers activity
Michael Paquier: Two attributes are added to pg_stat_database: - parallel_workers_to_launch, counting the total number of parallel workers that were planned to be launched. - parallel_workers_launched, counting the total number of parallel workers actually launched. The ratio of both fields can provide hints that there are not enough slots available when launching parallel workers, also useful when pg_stat_statements is not deployed on an instance (i.e.

pg_rewind: Add dbname to primary_conninfo when using --write-recovery-conf
Masahiko Sawada: This commit enhances pg_rewind's --write-recovery-conf option to include the dbname in the generated primary_conninfo value when specified in the --source-server option.

Add pg_dump --with-{schema|data|statistics} options
Jeff Davis: By adding the positive variants of options, in addition to the negative variants that already exist, users can be explicit about what pg_dump should produce.

Small fixes for Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... SET [NO] INHERIT
Peter Eisentraut: Small fixes for commit f4e53e10b6c: Add missing calls to InvokeObjectPostAlterHook() and also CacheInvalidateRelcache().

Fix broken handling of domains in atthasmissing logic
Tom Lane: If a domain type has a default, adding a column of that type (without any explicit DEFAULT clause) failed to install the domain's default value in existing rows, instead leaving the new column null.

pg_verifybackup: Verify tar-format backups
Robert Haas: This also works for compressed tar-format backups.

doc: Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS to ALTER TABLE reference docs
Peter Eisentraut: Commit fc0438b4e80 documented WITHOUT OVERLAPS in the CREATE TABLE docs, but not in ALTER TABLE.

pg_stat_statements: Add columns to track parallel worker activity
Michael Paquier: The view pg_stat_statements gains two columns:- parallel_workers_to_launch, the number of parallel workers planned to be launched.- parallel_workers_launched, the number of parallel workers actually launched. The ratio of both columns offers hints that parallel workers are lacking on a per-statement basis, requiring some tuning, in coordination with "calls", the number of times a query is executed. As of now, these numbers are tracked within Gather and GatherMerge nodes.

Add PG_TEST_EXTRA configure option to the Make builds
Heikki Linnakangas: The Meson builds have PG_TEST_EXTRA as a configure-time variable, which was not available in the Make builds.

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