Re: Release Note Changes

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>>>> I still think this needs to be qualified either way. As it stands it's
>>>> quite misleading. Many update scenarios will not benefit one whit from
>>>> HOT updates.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Doesn't the detail description qualify it enought? The heading isn't
>>> suppose to have all the information or it would be unreadable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> If you don't want to be more specific I'd say "certain updates" or "some
>> updates" or something similar, just some flag to say it's not all of them.
>>
>
> Good idea. I added "most":
>
> Heap-Only Tuples (<acronym>HOT</>) accelerate space reuse for most
> <command>UPDATE</>s (Pavan Deolasee, with ideas from many others)
>

But that's not true either. For example, in my current $dayjob app not
one significant update will benefit - we have an index rich environment.
You have no basis for saying "most" that I can see. We really should not
be in the hyp business in our release notes - that job belongs to the
commercial promoters ;-)

cheers

andrew