Re: 9.4 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: 9.4 release notes
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Msg-id 53672E53.80800@vmware.com
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In response to 9.4 release notes  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 05/04/2014 03:46 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Auto-resize the catalog cache (Heikki Linnakangas)
>
> This reduces memory consumption for backends accessing only a few
> tables, and improves performance for backend accessing many tables.

Move this to "General performance" section.

> Improve spinlock speed on x86_64 CPUs (test on i386?) (Heikki Linnakangas)

I believe this refers to commit b03d196b. The "test on i386" note can 
just be removed. Someone ought to test it on 32-bit i386 to see if the 
same change would be beneficial there, but that's a TODO item more than 
a release notes item. I doubt anyone's interested to spend time 
performance testing spinlocks on 32-bit i386, though, so I think we're 
going to just retain the current situation for the next decade.

- Heikki



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