Andres Freund <andres@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.
regards, tom lane