Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 08:52:44PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 18:03, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I need clarification on many items, and the document still needs its
> > items properly ordered, and markup added. I also expect a lot of
> > feedback.
>
> Thanks for drafting that up.
>
> > Add executor method to cache results from the inner-side of joins (David Rowley)
>
> I think it would be more accurate to say "inner-side of nested loop joins".

OK, thanks. I suspected that was true.

> > Allow efficient retrieval of heap rows via tid (Edmund Horner, David Rowley)
>
> I'd say we already had that feature with TID Scan. Maybe it would be
> better to write:
>
> "Allow efficient heap scanning on ranges of tids (Edmund Horner, David Rowley)"

I went with:

Allow efficient heap scanning of a range of tids (Edmund Horner,
David Rowley)

> > Improve the performance of parallel sequential scans (Thomas Munro, David Rowley)
>
> I think it is worth mentioning "I/O" before "performance". This
> change won't really help cases if all the table's pages are already in
> shared buffers.

I went with:

Improve the performance of parallel sequential I/O scans (Thomas Munro,
David Rowley)

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