Re: pgsql: docs: fist draft version of the PG 12 release notes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: docs: fist draft version of the PG 12 release notes
Date: 2019-05-14 02:39:26
Message-ID: 20190514023926.p2u7vedifqcfbsjj@momjian.us
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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 04:01:36PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> On 2019/05/11 10:25, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I struggled to talk about partitioning since there were so many
> > improvements. I favored a more generic item that just suggested
> > dramatic improvements. I have modified the text to:
> >
> > Improve performance of many operations on partitioned tables (Amit
> > Langote, David Rowley, Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera)
> >
> > Also, thousands of partitions can now be pruned efficiently.
> >
> > Committed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Does that work?
>
> That's better, but the second line still just mentions pruning efficiency.
> It's true that pruning large number of partitions got a lot quicker in
> this release, but that is by no means the only improvement. How about
> writing:
>
> Thousands of partitions can now be pruned efficiently. Also, inserting
> into partitioned tables no longer slows down as the number of partitions
> increases.
>
> or some such.

I went with this wording:

Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
efficiently.

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