Re: Postgres 11 release notes

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:42:35AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
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> On August 25, 2018 11:41:11 AM PDT, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:21:26AM +0200, Adrien Nayrat wrote:
> >> Hello,
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> >> It seems this feature is missing in releases notes ?
> >>
> >> commit 1f6d515a67ec98194c23a5db25660856c9aab944
> >> Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> >> Date: Mon Aug 21 14:43:01 2017 -0400
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> >> Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.
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> >> Douglas Doole, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and by me. Minor
> >formatting
> >> change by me.
> >>
> >> Discussion:
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> >http://postgr.es/m/CADE5jYLuugnEEUsyW6Q_4mZFYTxHxaVCQmGAsF0yiY8ZDggi-w@mail.gmail.com
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> >I looked into this and it is usually a detail we don't have in the
> >release notes. It isn't generally interesting enough to user.
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> This seems quite relevant. Both because it addresses concerns, but also can lead to a worse plan.

Well, our normal logical is whether the average user would adjust their
behavior based on this change, or whether it is user visible. I thought
it was a contrived-enough query that this was not the case, but I would
be interested to hear what others think.

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