2 Appendix E. Release Notes
9 E.1.2. Migration to Version 18
11 E.1.4. Acknowledgments
15 The release notes contain the significant changes in each PostgreSQL
16 release, with major features and migration issues listed at the top.
17 The release notes do not contain changes that affect only a few users
18 or changes that are internal and therefore not user-visible. For
19 example, the optimizer is improved in almost every release, but the
20 improvements are usually observed by users as simply faster queries.
22 A complete list of changes for each release can be obtained by viewing
23 the Git logs for each release. The pgsql-committers email list records
24 all source code changes as well. There is also a web interface that
25 shows changes to specific files.
27 The name appearing next to each item represents the major developer for
28 that item. Of course all changes involve community discussion and patch
29 review, so each item is truly a community effort.
31 Section markers (ยง) in the release notes link to gitweb pages which
32 show the primary git commit messages and source tree changes
33 responsible for the release note item. There might be additional git
34 commits which are not shown.