Re: PG 10 release notes

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> On 2017-04-24 23:37:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I remember seeing those and those are normally details I do not put in
>>> the release notes as there isn't a clear user experience change except
>>> "Postgres is faster". Yeah, a bummer, and I can change my filter, but
>>> it would require discussion.
>
>> I think "postgres is faster" is one of the bigger user demands, so I
>> don't think that policy makes much sense. A large number of the changes
>> over the next few releases will focus solely on that. Nor do I think
>> past release notes particularly filtered such changes out.
>
> I think it has been pretty common to accumulate a lot of such changes
> into generic entries like, say, "speedups for hash joins". More detail
> than that simply isn't useful to end users; and as a rule, our release
> notes are too long anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
Just wondering if the mention of commit
0414b26bac09379a4cbf1fbd847d1cee2293c5e4 is missed? Not sure if this
requires a separate entry or could be merged with -- Support parallel
btree index scans.

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