Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 03:35:13PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 4:54 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I think our text "This new default better reflects current hardware
> > capabilities." is detailed enough.  People can dig into the item to see
> > what it does and how it adjusts costs.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> I noticed something about the same item that needs to be fixed,
> though. The vacuum_cost_page_miss GUC does not directly represent any
> kind of time-based delay, but the current wording says that it uses
> millisecond units. In fact the vacuum_cost_page_miss GUC is based on
> abstract cost units, apportioned from vacuum_cost_limit. I suggested
> that the wording talk about relative cost differences in part because
> that's just how the GUC works, in general.

OK, thanks.  Here is the updated text:

    <listitem>
    <!--
    Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
    2021-01-27 [e19594c5c] Reduce the default value of
    vacuum_cost_page_miss.
    -->
    
    <para>
    Reduce the default value of <xref linkend="guc-vacuum-cost-page-miss"/>
    to better reflects current hardware capabilities (Peter Geoghegan)
    </para>
    </listitem>

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