Re: 7.5 release notes

On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 21:25, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have completed the 7.5 release notes. You can view them in HTML on
> the developer web page. I have marked a few items with question marks
> that need to be addressed. I am looking for improvements, even minor
> ones. Either send in a patch or committers can modify the file
> directly.

I don't understand the following passage:

"When matching GROUP BY names, prefer local FROM columns first, then
SELECT aliases, and then outer FROM columns (Tom)

This change was made because it is considered more consistent than the
previous behavior."

Perhaps it could be more clear? I don't know where else I'd go to find
more thorough documentation on that subject.

Also, I've included a couple typo fixes below.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

--- release.html.old 2004-07-25 03:06:28.000000000 -0700
+++ release.html 2004-07-25 03:10:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@
</p><p> Before this change some queries would not use an
index if the data
types did not exactly match. This improvement makes index usage
more
intuitive and consistent.
- match exactly
</p></li><li><p> New buffer replacement strategy that
improves caching (Jan)
</p><p> Prior releases use a least-recently-used (LRU) cache
to keep
recently referenced pages in the cache. Unfortunately, the cache
@@ -129,7 +128,7 @@
resulting in improved performance. The close relationship between
our developers and users reporting problems allows us to make
rapid and complex optimizer improvements that would be very
- difficult for lose-source companies to emulate.
+ difficult for closed-source companies to emulate.
</p></li><li><p> Improve btree index performance for
duplicate keys (Dmitry Tkach, Tom)
</p><p> This improves the way indexes are scanned when many
duplicate values exist in the index.