Re: PG 10 release notes

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:37:48AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-04-25 13:11:32 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I don't think this warrants inclusion in the release notes for reasons
> > already discussed. The vacuum truncation operation is a rare one and
> > an implementation detail.
>
> I think that's backwards. The truncate operation is quite delicate
> because it happens with AccessExclusiveLock held. This regularly does
> cause issues in production. When users look for things they possibly
> should update for, something like "performance improvents in final
> vacuum phase" + oneliner is going to be a lot more interesting than,
> say, "Add MONEY operators for multiplication and division with INT8
> values".
>
> More and more users are going to be primarily interested in three
> classes of new things in postgres: 1) performance 2) replication 3)
> easier management. Arbitrarily excluding one of the major categories
> from release notes isn't a useful policy, especially if we continue to
> list new feature that'll effect no more than a handful of people.

I disputed that my logic is arbitrary. However, given your
explanation, I have added the item:

Improve speed of <command>VACUUM</>'s removal of trailing empty
heap pages (Alvaro Herrera)

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