Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:38:40AM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:35 AM Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:40:38PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > > > > Optionally use AVX2 CPU instructions for calculating page checksums (Matthew Sterrett, Andrew Kim) §
> > > >
> > > > > Optionally use ARM Crypto Extension to Compute CRC32C (John Naylor) §
> > > >
> > > > There's no option for these, the extensions are used where available.
> > >
> > > So, the "Optionally" indicates we use these instructions if the CPU
> > > supports them. I assume we don't use them on all CPUs. Can you
> > > suggest better wording?
> > >
> >
> > I think the simplest change would be to replace "optionally" with
> > "when available", although ISTR we use wording along the lines of "Add
> > support for" or "is now supported" when runtime/compiler checks are
> > involved.
>
> That would be fine. The v17 and v18 release notes didn't have such
> qualifying language, for things that are less common than the above
> (SVE, AVX-512), but whatever.

Okay, I will just remove the "Optionally" and see if anyone complains.
Patch attached and applied.

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