Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:06 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have made the details match what we usually do for level of detail in
> > the release notes.
>
> WRT the overview, I'm not sure what a user is supposed to make of an
> overview bullet point like "Use pseudo-transaction ids in read-only
> transactions". If we're going to mention this at all, we ought to
> include enough information for it to be sensible -- or else phrase it in
> less technical terms ("Improve performance of read-only transactions by
> lazily assigning transaction IDs"). Similar comments apply to the "ORDER
> BY ... LIMIT" optimization, async commit, distributed checkpoint I/O,
> etc.
Agreed. I need to make it more targeted at the benefit, like "reduce
need for vacuuming caused by read-only transactions". You are looking
at only my first cut at edits.
> For the "Migration to 8.3" section, I think we definitely need a lot
> more details than are presently there ("New C macros for handling
> variable-length data values" is not exactly very useful, for example).
The detail is below.
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