Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:21:44AM +0500, Andrew Borodin wrote:
> Hi, Bruce!
> 
> 2017-04-25 6:31 GMT+05:00 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
> > The only unusual thing is that this release has ~180 items while most
> > recent release have had ~220.  The pattern I see that there are more
> > large features in this release than previous ones.
> 
> I'm not sure, but, probably, it worth mentioning this [1,2] in the
> E.1.3.1.2. Indexes section.
> Better tuple management on GiST page allows faster inserts and
> updates. (In numbers: 15% for randomized data,3x for ordered data in
> specific cases)
> 
> [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/10/661/
> [2] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b1328d78f88cdf4f7504004159e530b776f0de16

OK, got it.  Here is the new item:
      Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>      2016-09-09 [b1328d78f] Invent PageIndexTupleOverwrite, and      teach
BRINand GiST
 
      Allow faster <acronym>GiST</> inserts and updates by reusing      index space more efficiently (Andrey Borodin)

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