Re: Release Note Changes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Release Note Changes
Date: 2007-12-09 20:36:57
Message-ID: 200712092036.lB9KavG27003@momjian.us
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> I understand the thinking but I disagree that "various optimizations speeding
> up merge sort, reducing contention at transaction start and end, ..." is
> entirely content-free. I agree that nobody is really going to be specifically
> saying "gee, i wish we could use postgres but merge-join is just too slow".
> However as a user I find it helpful to get a kind of overview of the kinds of
> invisible changes there were so I can get a feel for the magnitude of the
> improvements between versions.

Agreed. You will have to convince Tom because it was mostly such items
from him in previous release that he asked to be removed.

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