Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 10:24:39AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 5/11/24 09:57, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 23:31, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > I looked at both of these. In both cases I didn't see why the user
> > > > would need to know these changes were made:
> > >
> > > I agree that the buffering change is not likely interesting, but
> > > the fact that you can now control-C out of a psql "\c" command
> > > is user-visible. People might have internalized the fact that
> > > it didn't work, or created complicated workarounds.
> >
> > The buffering change improved performance up to ~40% in some of the
> > benchmarks. The case it improves mostly is COPY of large rows and
> > streaming a base backup. That sounds user-visible enough to me to
> > warrant an entry imho.
>
> +1

Attached patch applied.

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