Re: 9.5 release notes

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
>> Really? The pre-check thing wasn't too complex for Magnus to have a
>> couple of bullet points on it *specifically* in his high level NYC
>> talk on Postgres 9.5 features [1]. I don't think it's hard to
>> understand at all.
>>
>> Also, it's simply incorrect to describe abbreviation as: "Improve the
>> speed of sorting character and numeric fields". Character fields
>> presumably include character(n), and as I pointed out character(n)
>> lacks abbreviation support.
>
> Where are we on this? Bruce mentioned that he'd revisit this during pgCon.
>
> Aside from the issue of whether or not the pre-check thing is
> mentioned, and aside from the issue of correctly identifying which
> types the abbreviation optimization applies to, I have another
> concern: I cannot imagine why we'd fail to mention a totally
> independent speed up of about 10% [1] for CREATE INDEX on integer
> columns. This speed-up has nothing to do with abbreviation or anything
> else mentioned in the 9.5 release notes currently; it's down to commit
> 5ea86e6e, which extended sortsupport to work with cases like CREATE
> INDEX and CLUSTER.

Can you put your suggestions here in the form of a patch to the release notes?

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