Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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Msg-id 6233479a-0e58-464c-8ff1-311e076a9c00@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes  (Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>)
Responses Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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On 5/11/24 09:57, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 23:31, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> > I looked at both of these.   In both cases I didn't see why the user
>> > would need to know these changes were made:
>>
>> I agree that the buffering change is not likely interesting, but
>> the fact that you can now control-C out of a psql "\c" command
>> is user-visible.  People might have internalized the fact that
>> it didn't work, or created complicated workarounds.
> 
> The buffering change improved performance up to ~40% in some of the
> benchmarks. The case it improves mostly is COPY of large rows and
> streaming a base backup. That sounds user-visible enough to me to
> warrant an entry imho.

+1

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