Re: Postgres 11 release notes

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:18 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:40, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:15 PM Alexander Korotkov
> > <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 3:57 PM Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski
> >> <me@komzpa.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm not sure it is usefull in release notes since it is more about API, and not
> >>>>> user-facing change. Just in case.
> >>>>> GiST opclasses now can omit compress and decompress functions. If compress
> >>>>> function is omited, IndexOnlyScan is enabled for opclass without any extra
> >>>>> change.
> >>>>> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/
> >>>>> d3a4f89d8a3e500bd7c0b7a8a8a5ce1b47859128
> >>>>
> >>>> Uh, we do have this for SP-GiST:
> >>>>
> >>>>        Allow SP-GiST indexes to optionally use compression (Teodor Sigaev,
> >>>>        Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov)
> >>>>
> >>>> I am unclear how far downt the API stack I should go in documenting
> >>>> changes like this.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It is also a bit misleading - the idea in that change is that now index representation can be a lossy version of
actualdata type (a box instead of polygon as a referende, so a changelog entry can tell "Allow SP-GiST index creation
forpolygon datatype.").  There is no "decompression" for such thing. "compression" sounds like gzip for me in
user-facingcontext. 
> >>
> >> +1 that current wording looks confusing.  But I think we need to
> >> highlight that we have general SP-GiST improvement, not just support
> >> for particular datatype.  So, I propose following wording: "Allow
> >> SP-GiST to use lossy representation of leaf keys, and add SP-GiST
> >> support for polygon type using that".
> >
> > Oh, I missed that we have separate release notes entry for polygons
> > indexing.  Then second part of sentence isn't needed, it should be
> > just "Allow SP-GiST to use lossy representation of leaf keys".  If no
> > objections, I'm going to commit that altogether with fixes by
> > Liudmila.
>
> Speaking of typos, I think I spotted two more: s/features is/feature is/.
> Fixed in the attached diff.

Committed, thanks!

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