Re: 9.5 release notes

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Can you put your suggestions here in the form of a patch to the release notes?
>
> The attached patch generalizes from the 9.2 release note wording. I
> use the word "inlined" here too, even though commit 5ea86e6e6 did not
> do too much with inlining of C code (unlike the 9.2 stuff that went in
> a little after SortSupport itself).
>
> Seems better to be consistent with the earlier item, and it is still
> probably in some sense true, because the new SortSupport-wise inlined
> comparator probably benefits from inlining more than the historic
> scanKey-wise inlined comparator, due to the removal of indirection.

OK, but how about this wording instead?

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
index 4086c6b..5e8cc15 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
@@ -221,6 +221,15 @@

<listitem>
<para>
+ Extend the infrastructure allow sorting to be performed by inlined,
+ non-<acronym>SQL</acronym>-callable comparison functions to cover
+ <command>CREATE INDEX</>, <command>REINDEX</>, and
+ <command>CLUSTER</> (Peter Geoghegan)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Improve in-memory hash performance (Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas)
</para>
</listitem>

BTW, shouldn't Andrew also be credited here, since he did the work on
datum sorts?

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