Re: PG 10 release notes

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:38:55AM +0530, Rafia Sabih wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> >> On 2017-04-24 23:37:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> I remember seeing those and those are normally details I do not put in
> >>> the release notes as there isn't a clear user experience change except
> >>> "Postgres is faster". Yeah, a bummer, and I can change my filter, but
> >>> it would require discussion.
> >
> >> I think "postgres is faster" is one of the bigger user demands, so I
> >> don't think that policy makes much sense. A large number of the changes
> >> over the next few releases will focus solely on that. Nor do I think
> >> past release notes particularly filtered such changes out.
> >
> > I think it has been pretty common to accumulate a lot of such changes
> > into generic entries like, say, "speedups for hash joins". More detail
> > than that simply isn't useful to end users; and as a rule, our release
> > notes are too long anyway.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> >
> Just wondering if the mention of commit
> 0414b26bac09379a4cbf1fbd847d1cee2293c5e4 is missed? Not sure if this
> requires a separate entry or could be merged with -- Support parallel
> btree index scans.

This item was merged into the general parallel index scan item:

Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2017-02-15 [569174f1b] btree: Support parallel index scans.
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2017-02-15 [5262f7a4f] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index sc
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2017-02-19 [0414b26ba] Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index-on

Support parallel btree index scans (Rahila Syed, Amit Kapila, Robert

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