Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 01:27:10PM +0200, David Geier wrote:
> >>> So, it seems there is no user-visible change, except it is faster. Does
> >>> it enable new workloads? A 3x speedup probably does. Should this be a
> >>> pg_trgm item, with a description mentioning GIN in general, or should it
> >>> be a GIN item, perhaps mentioning pg_trgm? Do you have any suggested
> >>> text and list of commits?
> >>
> >> Not all patches from the initial mail have been committed yet. Hence,
> >> currently the speed up is less. However, once they got all committed
> >> they would indeed open up new "use cases". For example, I know users
> >> that don't add GIN indexes to very large tables because creating them
> >> takes too long.
> >
> > Yes, GIN index creation has always been considered slow, so it is good
> > it is being worked on. I wonder if we should just wait for it all to be
> > committed before adding it to the release notes, unless you want to
> > measure the improvement we have in PG 19.
>
> I've measured with the same benchmark I used in the original thread [1].
> With latest master the results are as follows:
>
> Dataset | REL_18_3 | master | Speedup
> ---------|------------|------------|--------
> movies | 10,561 ms | 9,124 ms | 1.17x
> lineitem | 263,523 ms | 234,605 ms | 1.12x
>
> That's because three patches from the patchset haven't been committed
> yet. Two of the three patches are the most impactful from the patchset.

Okay, at +12-17%, so we should wait until all the patches are in to
mention this. Thanks.

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