On 2015-08-07 11:53:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> * 2014-10-02 [3acc10c9] Robert..: Increase the number of buffer mapping > >> partition.. > >> should we mention this? This has been patched by a number of > >> downstream vendors and users, so it's probably worth calling out? > > > > Uh, I am not sure why general users would care. > > Because it significantly improves performance on workloads that don't > fit into shared_buffers and have concurrency.
Exactly. > >> * 2014-07-14 [91f03ba] Noah M..: MSVC: Recognize PGFILEDESC in contrib and > >> conv.. > >> 2015-04-16 [22d0053] Alvaro..: MSVC: install src/test/modules together > >> with c.. > >> Don't seem to warrant a release note entry. > > > > User-visible changes. > > It seems really strange to me to say that things which improve > performance or change query plans are somehow not user-visible, but > applying a file description to Windows binaries is user-visible. I am > willing to bet you a beverage of your choice that a lot more people > are going to notice the performance improvements and planner changes > than will ever notice that stuff. + many. > (I realize now that compiling the release notes must be a somewhat > thankless task, so let me just say that I do appreciate the work > you've put into this very much and the comments above shouldn't be > understood to take anything away from that. The fact that we don't > agree on what the criteria ought to be does not mean that I don't > appreciate you doing the work.) Same here. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
