Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 10:59:36AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-05-21 22:46:58 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > For the above two items, I mention items that would change user
> > > like new features or changes that are significant enough that they would
> > > change user behavior.  For example, if a new join method increases
> > > performance by 5x, that could change user behavior.  Based on the quoted
> > > numbers above, I didn't think "hash now faster" would be appropriate to
> > > mention.  Right?
> 
> I continue, as in past releases, to think that this is a bad policy. For
> existing workloads performance improvements are commonly a more convincing
> reason to upgrade than new features - they allow users to scale the workload
> further, without needing application changes.
> 
> Of course there are performance improvement that are too miniscule to be worth
> mentioning, but it's not a common case.
> 
> And here it's not just performance, but also memory usage, including steady
> state memory usage.

Understood.  I continue to need help determining which items to include.
Can you suggest some text?  This?

    Improve efficiency of memory usage to allow for better scaling

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