Re: Initial release notes created for 9.6

On 2016-05-05 16:25:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can.
> 
> Overall, I think this looks pretty great.  Thanks for pulling it
> together so quickly.

+1

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> This was basically an attempt to cure a defect in 48354581a and could
> perhaps be lumped under that item.

It's also an independent performance improvement (sadly), and has the
potential for issues; so there's *some* benefits on keeping this as its
own entry.


Greetings,

Andres Freund