Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:44 AM Matthias van de Meent
<boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that the improvement in bloat control in the HeapAM that I
> know of (3c3b8a4b, 0ff8bbde) weren't documented here. Although each
> can be considered minor, they together can decrease the bloating
> behaviour of certain workloads significantly (and limit the total
> damage), and in my opinion this should be mentioned.
>
> 3c3b8a4b: Returns space claimed for the line pointer array back to the
> page's empty space, so that it can also be used for tuple data.
>
> 0ff8bbde: Allows large tuples to be inserted on pages which have only
> a small amount of data, regardless of fillfactor.

+1 on mentioning both things.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan