Re: 7.5 release notes

Jeff Davis wrote:
> 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.

Item removed. Tom said it was already in 7.4.3.

I made the adjustments below.

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>
> 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.
>
>
>

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