Re: PG 10 release notes

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 12:39:43PM +0200, Adrien Nayrat wrote:
> On 07/13/2017 04:36 PM, Adrien Nayrat wrote:
> > Hello hackers,
> >
> > From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
> >> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:19:57 -0700
> >> Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #14722: Segfault in tuplesort_heap_siftup, 32 bit overflow
> >> On pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >
> > On 07/06/2017 12:19 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >> In Postgres 10, tuplesort external sort run merging became much faster
> >> following commit 24598337c8d. It might be noticeable if such a machine
> >> were using Postgres 10 [...]
> >
> > Should-we mention this improvement in release notes?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> After seeing theses slides (especially 52) :
> https://speakerdeck.com/peterg/sort-hash-pgconfus-2017
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>
>
>
> Should we mention it ?

I don't know, but I suggest you read this email thread from April to get
an idea of how performance items are handled:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20170425013144(dot)GA7513%40momjian(dot)us#20170425013144(dot)GA7513(at)momjian(dot)us

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