Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On 5/11/24 09:57, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 23:31, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> > I looked at both of these. In both cases I didn't see why the user
>> > would need to know these changes were made:
>>
>> I agree that the buffering change is not likely interesting, but
>> the fact that you can now control-C out of a psql "\c" command
>> is user-visible. People might have internalized the fact that
>> it didn't work, or created complicated workarounds.
>
> The buffering change improved performance up to ~40% in some of the
> benchmarks. The case it improves mostly is COPY of large rows and
> streaming a base backup. That sounds user-visible enough to me to
> warrant an entry imho.

+1

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