From 878635daaae548d4e6a58224c0bb04bea1ea2bcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 13:58:53 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19. --- doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml | 127 +++-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml index 7e1a6eceeb5..decab41ab64 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml @@ -274,31 +274,6 @@ Branch: REL_13_STABLE [1168acbca] 2024-12-03 10:13:49 +1300 - - Use rename() - not link()/unlink() to - rename files (Nathan Bossart) - - - - The previous coding was intended to assure that the operation could - not accidentally overwrite an existing file. However a failure - could leave two links to the same file in existence, confusing - subsequent operations and creating a risk of data corruption. - In practice we do not use this functionality in places where the - target filename could already exist, so it seems better to give up - the no-overwrite guarantee to remove the multiple-link hazard. - - - - - - - Improve performance of archiver process with many status files - (Nathan Bossart) - - - - This change back-patches a fix originally made in v15, in response - to reports of extremely poor archiving performance leading to - downtime or loss of replicas. - - - - - - - Avoid low-probability crash on out-of-memory, due to missing check - for failure return from malloc() - (Karina Litskevich) - - - - - - - Fix handling of Windows junction points that are not - of PostgreSQL origin (Thomas Munro) - - - - Previously, initdb would fail if the path - to the data directory included junction points whose expansion isn't - in drive absolute format, or whose expansion points - to another junction point. - - - - - - - Avoid rare assertion failure during relation truncation (Heikki - Linnakangas) - - - - - In pgbench, fix possible misdisplay of progress messages during table initialization (Yushi Ogiwara, Tatsuo Ishii, Fujii Masao) § + § @@ -1507,35 +1425,6 @@ Branch: REL_13_STABLE [32057a0f7] 2024-11-25 12:50:17 -0500 - - During configure, if a C23 compiler is - detected, try asking for C17 (Thomas Munro) - - - - PostgreSQL versions before v16 will not - compile under C23 rules. If the chosen compiler defaults to C23 or - later, try adding a -std=gnu17 switch to change - that. (If this won't work for your compiler, manually - specify CFLAGS with a suitable switch.) - - - - -