Re: 9.5 release notes

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>>> <listitem>
>>> <para>
>>> Improve concurrent locking and buffer scan performance (Andres
>>> Freund, Kevin Grittner)
>>> </para>
>>> </listitem>
>>
>> If this is ab5194e6f, I don't think it makes sense to mention "buffer
>> scan" - it's just any lwlock, and buffer locks aren't the primary
>> benefit (ProcArrayLock, buffer mapping lock probably are that). I also
>
>> don't think Kevin was involved?
>
> It seems likely that 2ed5b87f9 was combined with something else in
> this reference. By reducing buffer pins and buffer content locking
> during btree index scans it shows a slight performance gain in
> btree scans and avoids some blocking of btree index vacuuming.

I think maybe we should separate that back out. The list needs to be
user-accessible, but if it's hard to understand what it's referring
to, that's not good either.

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