Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Hi,

On May 21, 2023 11:46:56 AM PDT, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>On 5/21/23 1:13 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>>
>> Looking through the release notes, I didn't see an entry for
>>
>> commit c6e0fe1f2a08505544c410f613839664eea9eb21
>> Author: David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Date: 2022-08-29 17:15:00 +1200
>> Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management
>>
>> even though I think that's one of the more impactful improvements. What was
>> the reason for leaving that out?
>
>IIUC in[1], would this "just speed up" read-heavy workloads?

I don't think so. It can speed up write workloads as well. But more importantly it can noticeably reduce memory usage, including for things like the relcache.

Andres
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