Re: 9.3 Beta1 status report

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:38:59PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > I usually mention items that have a user-visible change, or are easy to
> > explain, or apply to most queries. I am not sure this falls into any
> > of
> > those categories.
> >
> > Can you suggest some release note text for this item?
>
> I can think of below text:
>
> Reduce query processing overhead by avoiding insertion of useless plan nodes
> OR
> Improve performance of certain kind of queries by avoiding extra processing
> of doing projection
>
> This applies to queries doing identity projection ("SELECT * FROM ...") for
> partitioned tables.

Uh, that's pretty complex for our release notes, and hard to understand
for most users. All they will know is that PG is faster --- we don't
document every speedup.

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