Incorporate additional feedback into PostgreSQL 15 release
authorJonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:55:40 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
committerJonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:55:40 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
Includes renaming of feature to "column lists", adding in details
around ICU collations being defaultable cluster-wide/database-wide.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
releases/15/release.en.md

index 84c1fcc1daa9300a42319028fdf7610968dbba45..229f6ad375a95d3dcd585df110c34ab462ae83de 100644 (file)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ In this latest release, PostgreSQL improves on its in-memory and on-disk
 with benchmarks showing speedups of 25% - 400% based on which data types are
 sorted. Using `row_number()`, `rank()`, and `count()` as
 [window functions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/functions-window.html)
-also have performance benefits in PostgreSQL 15, and queries using
+also have performance benefits in PostgreSQL 15. Queries using
 [`SELECT DISTINCT`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/queries-select-lists.html#QUERIES-DISTINCT)
 can now be
 [executed in parallel](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/parallel-query.html).
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ facilities. PostgreSQL 15 adds support for LZ4 and Zstandard (zstd)
 which can have both space and performance benefits for certain workloads. On
 certain operating systems, PostgreSQL 15 supports the ability to
 [prefetch WAL file contents](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-RECOVERY-PREFETCH)
-and speed up recovery times. PostgreSQL's built-in backup command,
+to speed up recovery times. PostgreSQL's built-in backup command,
 [`pg_basebackup`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/app-pgbasebackup.html), now
 supports server-side compression of backup files with a choice of gzip, LZ4, and
 zstd. PostgreSQL 15 includes the ability to use
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ which eliminates the overhead of using a shell command.
 
 PostgreSQL 15 includes the SQL standard
 [`MERGE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-merge.html) command.
-`MERGE` lets you write conditional SQL statements that include `INSERT`,
+`MERGE` lets you write conditional SQL statements that can include `INSERT`,
 `UPDATE`, and `DELETE` actions within a single statement.
 
 This latest release adds
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ PostgreSQL 15 provides more flexibility for managing
 This release introduces
 [row filtering](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/logical-replication-row-filter.html)
 and
-[column filtering](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-createpublication.html)
+[column lists](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/logical-replication-col-lists.html)
 for
 [publishers](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/logical-replication-publication.html),
 letting users choose to replicate a subset of data from a table. PostgreSQL 15
@@ -93,13 +93,9 @@ includes support for using two-phase commit (2PC) with logical replication.
 PostgreSQL 15 introduces a new logging format:
 [`jsonlog`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-JSONLOG).
 This new format outputs log data using a defined JSON structure, which allows
-PostgreSQL logs to be processed in structured logging systems. This release also
-adds a new built-in extension,
-[`pg_walinspect`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/pgwalinspect.html), that
-lets users inspect the contents of write-ahead log files directly from a SQL
-interface.
+PostgreSQL logs to be processed in structured logging systems.
 
-PostgreSQL 15 gives database administrators more flexibility in how users can
+This release gives database administrators more flexibility in how users can
 manage PostgreSQL configuration, adding the ability to grant users permission to
 alter server-level configuration parameters. Additionally, users can now search
 for information about configuration using the `\dconfig` command from the
@@ -112,6 +108,16 @@ PostgreSQL
 are now collected in shared memory, eliminating both the statistics collector
 process and periodically writing this data to disk.
 
+PostgreSQL 15 makes it possible to make an
+[ICU collation](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/collation.html) the default
+collation for a cluster or an individual database.
+
+This release also
+adds a new built-in extension,
+[`pg_walinspect`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/pgwalinspect.html), that
+lets users inspect the contents of write-ahead log files directly from a SQL
+interface.
+
 PostgreSQL 15 also
 [revokes the `CREATE` permission from all users](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/ddl-schemas.html#DDL-SCHEMAS-PATTERNS)
 except a database owner from the `public` (or default) schema.