Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 02:45:58PM -0400, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 09:42:30AM -0400, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> > > > > "Add an asynchronous I/O subsystem"
> > > I noticed in the PG 17 release notes [1] we did include the shas of
> > > each of the commits for the read stream users. Should we do that here
> > > as well? Those are what enable those operations to use AIO.
> >
> > So, I added the read stream item to PG 17 since that was a new
> > infrastructure feature, but for PG 18, we are just improving that
> > internal infrastructure, so didn't mention it. If you think we should
> > add those commits, I can do it.
>
> I wouldn't consider it as improving internal infrastructure exactly.
> My understanding is that usually when we add new features, even if
> they use an existing API, we still include them, as relevant, in the
> release notes. For example, next release we hope to have index
> prefetching -- but it may be implemented using the read stream API.
> Does that mean we wouldn't mention it in the release notes?

We certainly would mention index prefetching, but probably not the
changes to the read stream API unless those were separately relevant.

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