From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: First pass over release documentation. |
Date: | 2007-10-18 06:40:55 |
Message-ID: | 200710180640.l9I6et419487@momjian.us |
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bruce wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:06 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I have made the details match what we usually do for level of detail in
> > > the release notes.
> >
> > WRT the overview, I'm not sure what a user is supposed to make of an
> > overview bullet point like "Use pseudo-transaction ids in read-only
> > transactions". If we're going to mention this at all, we ought to
> > include enough information for it to be sensible -- or else phrase it in
> > less technical terms ("Improve performance of read-only transactions by
> > lazily assigning transaction IDs"). Similar comments apply to the "ORDER
> > BY ... LIMIT" optimization, async commit, distributed checkpoint I/O,
> > etc.
>
> Agreed. I need to make it more targeted at the benefit, like "reduce
> need for vacuuming caused by read-only transactions". You are looking
> at only my first cut at edits.
>
> > For the "Migration to 8.3" section, I think we definitely need a lot
> > more details than are presently there ("New C macros for handling
> > variable-length data values" is not exactly very useful, for example).
>
> The detail is below.
I see in 8.2 I had the migration stuff all in one section with the
detail and didn't mention it again below. I will follow that pattern
for 8.3 and do more adjustments tomorrow.
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