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doc: PG 16 relnotes, update for beta 2

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<formalpara>
<title>Release date:</title>
<para>AS OF 2023-05-17, 2023-??-??</para>
<para>AS OF 2023-06-26, 2023-??-??</para>
</formalpara>
<sect2 id="release-16-highlights">
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</para>
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Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
2023-06-07 [b0f6c4371] Remove read-only server settings lc_collate and lc_ctype
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<para>
Remove read-only server variables lc_collate and lc_ctype (Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
Collations and locales can vary between databases so having them as read-only server variables was unhelpful.
</para>
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Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
2023-05-21 [2dcd1578c] Rename some createuser options.
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
2023-05-23 [381d19b3e] Document deprecated createuser option.
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<para>
Deprecate createuser option --role (Nathan Bossart)
</para>
<para>
This option could be easily confused with new createuser role membership options, so option --member-of has been added with the same functionality.
The --role option can still be used.
</para>
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Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
2023-01-26 [37e267335] Don't install postmaster symlink anymore
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Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
2023-04-13 [6633cfb21] De-Revert "Add support for Kerberos credential delegatio
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
2023-05-20 [9c0a0e2ed] rename "gss_accept_deleg" to "gss_accept_delegation".
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
2023-05-20 [f4001a553] Fix remaining references to gss_accept_deleg.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2023-05-21 [a2eb99a01] Expand some more uses of "deleg" to "delegation" or "del
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Author: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>
Date: Fri Jun 16 10:27:32 2023 -0700
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<para>
Have CREATE DATABASE and CREATE COLLATION's LOCALE options, and initdb and createdb --locale options, control non-libc collation providers (Jeff Davis)
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<para>
Previously they only controlled libc providers.
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Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
2023-03-10 [0d21d4b9b] Add standard collation UNICODE
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Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2022-07-13 [08951a7c9] createuser: Add support for more clause types through ne
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
2023-05-21 [2dcd1578c] Rename some createuser options.
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Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2023-01-02 [1fd3dd204] Add bt_multi_page_stats() function to contrib/pageinspec
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<para>
Add empty range output column to pageinspect function brin_page_items() (Tomas Vondra)
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Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2023-02-17 [35739b87d] Redesign archive modules