Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

<p dir="ltr"><br /> On Mar 28, 2016 09:44, "Peter Geoghegan" <<a href="mailto:pg@heroku.com">pg@heroku.com</a>>
wrote:<br/> ><br /> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Tom Lane <<a
href="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</a>>wrote:<br /> > > Probably the most discussion-worthy
itemis whether we can say<br /> > > anything more about the strxfrm mess.  Should we make a wiki<br /> > >
pageabout that and have the release note item link to it?<br /> ><br /> > I think that there is an argument
againstdoing so, which is that<br /> > right now, all we have to offer on that are weasel words. However, I'm<br />
>still in favor of a Wiki page, because I would not be at all surprised<br /> > if our understanding of this
problemevolved, and we were able to<br /> > offer better answers in several weeks. Realistically, it will
probably<br/> > take at least that long before affected users even start to think<br /> > about this.<br /><p
dir="ltr">Shouldwe start thinking about ICU ? I compare Postgres with ICU and without and found 27x improvement in
btreeindex creation for russian strings. This includes effect of abbreviated keys and ICU itself. Also, we'll get
systemindependent locale.<br /> ><br /> ><br /> > --<br /> > Peter Geoghegan<br /> ><br /> ><br />
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