Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 02:20:24PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 02:56, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 10:24:39AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> > > On 5/11/24 09:57, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> I think we shouldn't list this under the libpq changes and shouldn't
> mention libpq in the description, since this patch changes
> src/backend/libpq files instead of src/interfaces/libpq files. I think
> it should be in the "General performance" section and describe the
> change as something like the below:
>
> Improve performance when transferring large blocks of data to a client
>
> PS. I completely understand that this was not clear from the commit message.

Okay, I went with your wording. Attached patch applied.

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