We continue to follow the news of the PostgreSQL 17 development. Let's find out what the September commitfest brings to the table.
If you missed our July commitfest review, you can check it out here: 2023-07.
Removed the parameter old_snapshot_threshold
New parameter event_triggers
New functions to_bin and to_oct
New system view pg_wait_events
EXPLAIN: a JIT compilation time counter for tuple deforming
Planner: better estimate of the initial cost of the WindowAgg node
pg_constraint: NOT NULL constraints
Normalization of CALL, DEALLOCATE and two-phase commit control commands
unaccent: the target rule expressions now support values in quotation marks
COPY FROM: FORCE_NOT_NULL * and FORCE_NULL *
Audit of connections without authentication
pg_stat_subscription: new column worker_type
The behaviour of pg_promote in case of unsuccessful switchover to a replica
Choosing the disk synchronization method in server utilities
pg_restore: optimization of parallel recovery of a large number of tables
pg_basebackup and pg_receivewal with the parameter dbname
Parameter names for a number of built-in functions
psql: \watch min_rows