On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 08:52:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-04-24 23:45:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > > On 2017-04-24 23:37:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >> I remember seeing those and those are normally details I do not put in > > >> the release notes as there isn't a clear user experience change except > > >> "Postgres is faster". Yeah, a bummer, and I can change my filter, but > > >> it would require discussion. > > > > > I think "postgres is faster" is one of the bigger user demands, so I > > > don't think that policy makes much sense. A large number of the changes > > > over the next few releases will focus solely on that. Nor do I think > > > past release notes particularly filtered such changes out. > > > > I think it has been pretty common to accumulate a lot of such changes > > into generic entries like, say, "speedups for hash joins". More detail > > than that simply isn't useful to end users; and as a rule, our release > > notes are too long anyway. > > Oh, I completely agree with accumulating related changes, and that > code-level details aren't useful. I think we skipped them entirely > here. And I just listed my own changes because I could find them > quickly, but they're not alone, e.g: > 090010f2ec9b1f9ac1124dc628b89586f911b641 - Improve performance of > find_tabstat_entry()/get_tabstat_entry() > which makes it realistic to have sessions touching many relations, which > previously was O(#relations^2), and which caused repeated complaints > over the years, and allows for different usecases.
Looking at this commit it appears to improve pg_stat statistics handling. I don't see how that improves performance except to improve statistics aggregation, which happens in the statistics process. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
