Re: [HACKERS] Release Notes Overview

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asynchronous Commit allows some transactions to commit faster than others, offering a trade-off between performance and durability for specific transaction types only A lot of users will be confused about what asynchronous

[HACKERS] Release Notes Overview

2007-10-05 Thread Simon Riggs
My suggested edit of the Overview section of the Release Notes. The emphasis is on user-noticeable features, so some of the major internal changes are lower down the list. Some items have been removed or placed below the performance features. New data types for SQL/XML, enum and uuid types

Re: [HACKERS] Release Notes Overview

2007-10-05 Thread Gregory Stark
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asynchronous Commit allows some transactions to commit faster than others, offering a trade-off between performance and durability for specific transaction types only A lot of users will be confused about what asynchronous commit does. I think it's

Re: [HACKERS] Release Notes Overview

2007-10-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 11:24 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asynchronous Commit allows some transactions to commit faster than others, offering a trade-off between performance and durability for specific transaction types only A lot of users will be