Re: 9.5 release notes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.5 release notes
Date: 2015-06-11 17:31:19
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYWVSG0jX3wyRZ8FB55hu3C6z-3+0m5dmkPCeZqx2VL8g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:13:26PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> > Improve hash creation and lookup performance (Tomas Vondra,
>> > Teodor Sigaev, Tom Lane, Robert Haas)
>>
>> I suggest haveing two separate items. One of those is about the Hash
>> executor node and the other is about our dynahash stuff. So they're
>> completely different code bases.
>
> OK, can you give me some text? Do users really care which part it is
> in?

One item should say something like:

Improve hash join performance.

The Teodor/Tom thing should say something like:

Improve the performance of various in-memory hash tables. In
particular, this can improve the performance of bitmap index scans.

I assume users would view those as separate things.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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