Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 08:48:56AM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 06:04, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 10:59:36AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > And here it's not just performance, but also memory usage, including steady
> > > state memory usage.
> >
> > Understood. I continue to need help determining which items to include.
> > Can you suggest some text? This?
> >
> > Improve efficiency of memory usage to allow for better scaling
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> * Reduce palloc() memory overhead for all memory allocations down to 8
> bytes on all platforms. (Andres Freund, David Rowley)
>
> This allows more efficient use of memory and is especially useful in
> queries which perform operations (such as sorting or hashing) that
> require more than work_mem.

Well, this would go in the source code section, but it seems too
internal and global to mention.

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