Re: PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Release Announcement Draft

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Release Announcement Draft
Date: 2020-05-20 23:47:44
Message-ID: f83748bd-b411-562e-2f6c-bf0c7ba15619@aklaver.com
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On 5/20/20 4:30 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hello, sorry for the timing on this, but here's some feedback.
>
> On 2020-May-20, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>

>
>> One of the most anticipated features of PostgreSQL 13 is the ability for the
>> `VACUUM` command to process indexes in parallel. This functionality can be
>> accessed using the new `PARALLEL` option on the `VACUUM` command (or
>> `--parallel` on `vacuumdb`), which allows you to specify the number of parallel
>> workers to use for vacuuming indexes. Note that this does not work with the
>> `FULL` option.
>
> I feel this "Note" is unnecessary; VACUUM FULL is of fringe use anyway.

You would hope so, but given the number of times it shows up on
--general I would say the note is important.

> The phrase on incremental sorting above is better use of these extra
> words, if you have a surplus.
>

> Thanks!
>

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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