relnotes: adjust sections for various items

Also improve postgres_fdw.application_name

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Tatsuo Ishii
Diagnosed-by: [email protected]

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
index c9ea7c9fedfd31255a98fd4cfbf3577cbb2c55ca..dc626adb9d5603c421726b6a97c56397e6c3301e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
@@ -253,6 +253,21 @@ Some platforms disallowed trailing periods.
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
+<!--
+Author: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
+2021-08-03 [95ab1e0a9] interval:  round values when spilling to months
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+When specifying fractional interval values in units greater than months, round to the nearest month (Bruce Momjian)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+For example, report '1.99 years' as '2 years', not '1 year 11 months'.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <!--
 Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
 2022-02-28 [54bd1e43c] Handle integer overflow in interval justification functi
@@ -314,6 +329,21 @@ UPDATE and DELETE perform SELECT, so require the subscription owner to have tabl
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
+2021-07-27 [48c5c9068] Use the "pg_temp" schema alias in EXPLAIN and related ou
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+When EXPLAIN references the temporary object schema, refer to it as "pg_temp" (Amul Sul)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously the actual schema name was used.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <!--
 Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
 2022-02-28 [2e517818f] Fix SPI's handling of errors during transaction commit.
@@ -698,7 +728,7 @@ Author: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Allow extended statistics to record statistics for a parent with all it children (Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby)
+Allow extended statistics to record statistics for a parent with all its children (Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby)
 </para>
 
 <para>
@@ -1128,17 +1158,6 @@ Allow "postgres -C" to properly report runtime-computed values (Nathan Bossart)
 <para>
 Previously runtime-computed values data_checksums, wal_segment_size, and data_directory_mode would report values that would not be accurate on the running server.  However, this does not work on a running server.
 </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<!--
-Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
-2022-01-31 [d10e41d42] Introduce pg_settings_get_flags() to find flags associat
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add function pg_settings_get_flags() to get the flags of server-side variables (Justin Pryzby)
-</para>
 </listitem>
 
      </itemizedlist>
@@ -1478,21 +1497,6 @@ Previously, all of the columns in the foreign key were always affected.
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
-<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
-2021-07-27 [48c5c9068] Use the "pg_temp" schema alias in EXPLAIN and related ou
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-When EXPLAIN references the temporary object schema, refer to it as "pg_temp" (Amul Sul)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Previously the actual schema name was used.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
 <!--
 Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
 2021-07-28 [b0483263d] Add support for SET ACCESS METHOD in ALTER TABLE
@@ -1539,21 +1543,6 @@ This allows rounding of values to the left of the decimal point, e.g., '1234'::n
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
-<!--
-Author: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
-2021-08-03 [95ab1e0a9] interval:  round values when spilling to months
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-When specifying fractional interval values in units greater than months, round to the nearest month (Bruce Momjian)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For example, report '1.99 years' as '2 years', not '1 year 11 months'.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
 <!--
 Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
 2022-04-02 [e39f99046] Fix overflow hazards in interval input and output conver
@@ -2196,6 +2185,17 @@ Improve pg_receivewal's ability to restart at the proper WAL location (Ronan Dun
 Previously, pg_receivewal would start based on the WAL file stored in the local archive directory, or at the sending server's current WAL flush location.  With this change, if the sending server is running
 Postgres 15 or later, the local archive directory is empty, and a replication slot is specified, the replication slot's restart point will be used.
 </para>
+</listitem>
+
+<!--
+Author: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
+2022-03-23 [4a39f87ac] Allow pgbench to retry in some cases.
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Allow pgbench to retry after serialization and deadlock failures (Yugo Nagata, Marina Polyakova)
+</para>
 </listitem>
 
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -2614,6 +2614,17 @@ Allow extensions to define their own WAL resource managers (Jeff Davis)
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
+<!--
+Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
+2022-01-31 [d10e41d42] Introduce pg_settings_get_flags() to find flags associat
+-->
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Add function pg_settings_get_flags() to get the flags of server-side variables (Justin Pryzby)
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <!--
 Author: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
 2022-01-15 [7170f2159] Allow "in place" tablespaces.
@@ -2632,7 +2643,7 @@ Author: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Export all server variables using PGDLLIMPORT on Windows (Robert Haas)
+Export all server variables on Windows using PGDLLIMPORT (Robert Haas)
 </para>
 
 <para>
@@ -2796,17 +2807,6 @@ Indicate the permissive/enforcing state in sepgsql log messages (Dave Page)
 </para>
 </listitem>
 
-<!--
-Author: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
-2022-03-23 [4a39f87ac] Allow pgbench to retry in some cases.
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Allow pgbench to retry after serialization and deadlock failures (Yugo Nagata, Marina Polyakova)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
 <!--
 Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
 2021-07-12 [127404fbe] pageinspect: Improve page_header() for pages of 32kB
@@ -2843,19 +2843,6 @@ Allow postgres_fdw to push down CASE expressions (Alexander Pyhalov)
 <!--
 Author: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
 2021-09-07 [449ab6350] postgres_fdw: Allow application_name of remote connectio
--->
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Add server variable postgres_fdw.application_name to control the application name of postgres_fdw connections (Hayato Kuroda)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Previously the remote application_name could only be set on the remote server or the postgres_fdw connection specification.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<!--
 Author: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
 2021-12-24 [6e0cb3dec] postgres_fdw: Allow postgres_fdw.application_name to inc
 Author: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
@@ -2864,7 +2851,11 @@ Author: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Allow informational escape sequences to be used in postgres_fdw's application name (Hayato Kuroda, Fujii Masao)
+Add server variable postgres_fdw.application_name to control the application name of postgres_fdw connections (Hayato Kuroda)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Previously the remote application_name could only be set on the remote server or via postgres_fdw connection specification.  postgres_fdw.application_name also supports escape sequences for customization.
 </para>
 </listitem>