Re: Draft release notes complete

On 10 May 2012 13:11, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> Why can't we call group commit group commit (and for that matter,
> index-only scans index-only scans), so that people will understand
> that we are now competitive with other RDBMSs in this area? "Improve
> performance of WAL writes when multiple transactions commit at the
> same time" seems like a pretty bad description, since it doesn't make
> any reference to batching of commits.  Also, I don't think that the
> placement of this as the second to last performance feature is
> commensurate with its actual importance.

Agreed.

Group Commit is a recognised term and also one where other DBMS, e.g.
Marea have included that feature recently.

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