Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes
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Msg-id YnsZSTrHK9AS7qwe@momjian.us
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In response to Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes
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On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:39:41PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 03:44, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > I have completed the first draft of the PG 15 release notes and you can
> > see the results here:
> >
> >         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-15.html
> 
> Thanks for doing that tedious work.
> 
> I think the sort improvements done in v15 are worth a mention under
> General Performance.  The commits for this were 91e9e89dc, 40af10b57
> and 697492434.  I've been running a few benchmarks between v14 and v15
> over the past few days and a fairly average case speedup is about 25%.
> but there are cases where I've seen up to 400%.  I think the increase
> is to an extent that we maybe should have considered making tweaks in
> cost_tuplesort(). I saw some plans that ran in about 60% of the time
> by disabling Hash Agg and allowing Sort / Group Agg to do the work.

Good point.  Do you have any suggested text?  I can't really see it
clearly based on the commits, except "sorting is faster".

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