Re: Release 14 Schedule

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?
>
>   . Allow extended statistics on column expressions;
>   . Memoize node which can improve speed of nested loop joins;
>   . Allow use of LZ4 compression for faster access to TOASTed fields;
>   . JSONB and H-store types may be subscripted, as may be participating data types provided by extensions.
>   . Many improvements to performance of VACUUM;
>
> Maybe these??

I would propose a few different ones. I'm looking at the overall breadth
of user impact as I propose these and the reactions I've seen in the field.

- General performance improvements for databases with multiple
connections (the MVCC snapshot work).

- The reduction in bloat on frequently updated B-trees; that was a
longstanding complaint against PostgreSQL that was resolved.

- I agree with the JSON improvements; I'd bucket this in data types and
include the support of multiranges.

- Logical decoding / replication received some significant performance
improvements

- Many improvements in query parallelism. One that stands out is how
parallel queries can be leveraged using FDWs now, in particular the
postgres_fdw.

- I agree with VACUUM suggestion as well.

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.

Thanks,

Jonathan