Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On Wed, May  7, 2025 at 02:52:27PM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
> > I did a double take on the current sentence, and revised it to:
> >
> > ==
> > PostgreSQL 18 introduces `oauth` authentication, which lets users
> > authenticate using OAuth 2.0 mechanisms supported through PostgreSQL
> > extensions.
> > ==
> >
> > I don't know how much we want to get into the back-and-forth flow in the
> > announcement itself, since it's more about raising awareness that this
> > exists, and then people can read the docs to find out more.
> 
> LGTM, thanks!

I have a few suggested changes to the PG 18 Beta 1 release notes in case
this text will be used for future PG 18 releases.

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increase I/O throughput and to hide I/O latency.
increase I/O throughput and to reduce I/O latency.
                               ^^^^^^

On Linux io_uring can be used for AIO, a worker based implementation
On Linux io_uring can be used for AIO, a worker-based implementation
                                               ^
This initial release supporting file system reads such as sequential
This initial release supports file system reads such as sequential
                            ^

This release also includes optimizations for WHERE clauses that contain
OR and IN (...) statements to better utilize recent indexing
improvements which can also result in better query performance.
SENTENCE TOO COMPLEX

which are commonly used for search over JSON and full-text data. 
which are commonly used for searching JSON and full-text data. 
                            ^^^^^^^^^

and adds several improvements to queries over partitioned tables,
and adds several improvements for queries over partitioned tables,
                              ^^^

a critical component of helping PostgreSQL to select
a critical component to help PostgreSQL select
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

introduces the CASEFOLD to help 
introduces CASEFOLD to help 
           ^^^^^^^^

and also adds the ssl_tls13_ciphers to let
and also adds ssl_tls13_ciphers to let
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and surfaces this information
and reports this information
    ^^^^^^^

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