Re: Release Note Changes

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> FWIW, I tend to agree with the folks who think Bruce trimmed too much
> this time. But the release notes are, and always have been, intended to
> boil the CVS history down to something useful by eliminating irrelevant
> detail.

OK, so given everything mentioned on this thread, there are three items
that are user noticeable and so don't fall into the category of
irrelevant detail:

- Merge Join performance has been substantially improved when low number
of duplicate join keys exist on the outer side of the join (Simon, Greg)

- Large I/O reduction during recovery when full_page_writes = on
(Heikki)

- WAL file switch performance has been improved. Recovery startup now
refers to the last checkpoint time, which may be anything up to the
checkpoint_timeout interval before a database crash. (Simon, Tom)

The last one seems important to me, but I can see that might be TMI for
some people, though I feel we should document it somewhere.

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Simon Riggs
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