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Add list of major features to the v18 release notes.

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Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aLMo7lJKg8bWUs3y%40momjian.us
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<listitem>
<para>
(to be completed)
An asynchronous I/O (AIO) subsystem that can improve performance of
sequential scans, bitmap heap scans, vacuums, and other operations.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="pgupgrade"><application>pg_upgrade</application></link>
now retains optimizer statistics.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support for "skip scan" lookups that allow using
<link linkend="indexes-multicolumn">multicolumn B-tree indexes</link> in
more cases.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="func_uuid_gen_table"><function>uuidv7()</function></link>
function for generating timestamp-ordered
<link linkend="datatype-uuid">UUIDs</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Virtual
<link linkend="sql-createtable-parms-generated-stored">generated columns</link>
that compute their values during read operations. This is now the
default for generated columns.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="auth-oauth">OAuth authentication</link> support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>OLD</literal> and <literal>NEW</literal> support for
<link linkend="dml-returning"><literal>RETURNING</literal></link> clauses
in <xref linkend="sql-insert"/>, <xref linkend="sql-update"/>,
<xref linkend="sql-delete"/>, and <xref linkend="sql-merge"/> commands.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Temporal constraints, or constraints over ranges, for
<link linkend="sql-createtable-parms-primary-key">PRIMARY KEY</link>,
<link linkend="sql-createtable-parms-unique">UNIQUE</link>, and
<link linkend="sql-createtable-parms-references">FOREIGN KEY</link>
constraints.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>