Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 02:55:18PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > | Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss (Peter Geoghegan) 
> > > |  This new default better reflects current hardware capabilities. 
> > > Also say: the previous default was 10.
> > 
> > Uh, we didn't report the new value, so why report the old one?
> 
> Good point.
> For symmetry with this one, maybe the old and new values should be included?

Not sure.  Those values are kind of hard to understand, so I am afraid
there would be more confusion by mentioning them.

> |Change checkpoint_completion_target default to 0.9 (Stephen Frost)
> |The previous default was 0.5.

Uh, that one is frequently modified by users, to an extent I didn't
understand why we kept it at 0.5 for so long, which is why I mentioned
it.

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