Re: 9.5 release notes

On 2015-08-07 11:53:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> * 2014-10-02 [3acc10c9] Robert..: Increase the number of buffer mapping partition..
> >>   should we mention this? This has been patched by a number of
> >>   downstream vendors and users, so it's probably worth calling out?
> >
> > Uh, I am not sure why general users would care.
> 
> Because it significantly improves performance on workloads that don't
> fit into shared_buffers and have concurrency.

Exactly.

> >> * 2014-07-14 [91f03ba] Noah M..: MSVC: Recognize PGFILEDESC in contrib and conv..
> >>   2015-04-16 [22d0053] Alvaro..: MSVC: install src/test/modules together with c..
> >>   Don't seem to warrant a release note entry.
> >
> > User-visible changes.
> 
> It seems really strange to me to say that things which improve
> performance or change query plans are somehow not user-visible, but
> applying a file description to Windows binaries is user-visible.  I am
> willing to bet you a beverage of your choice that a lot more people
> are going to notice the performance improvements and planner changes
> than will ever notice that stuff.

+ many.

> (I realize now that compiling the release notes must be a somewhat
> thankless task, so let me just say that I do appreciate the work
> you've put into this very much and the comments above shouldn't be
> understood to take anything away from that.  The fact that we don't
> agree on what the criteria ought to be does not mean that I don't
> appreciate you doing the work.)

Same here.