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 YnvI9eanyeYMXws/@momjian.us
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In response to Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 02:31:08PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 14:02, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:39:41PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> > > 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".
> 
> If we're going to lump those into a single line then maybe something
> along the lines of:
> 
> * Reduce memory consumption and improve performance of sorting tuples in memory
> 
> I think one line is fine from a user's perspective, but it's slightly
> harder to know the order of the names in the credits given the 3
> independent commits.

Okay, I went with this:

    <!--
    Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
    2021-07-22 [91e9e89dc] Make nodeSort.c use Datum sorts for single column sorts
    Author: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
    2022-04-04 [40af10b57] Use Generation memory contexts to store tuples in sorts
    Author: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
    2022-04-02 [697492434] Specialize tuplesort routines for different kinds of abb
    -->
    
    <listitem>
    <para>
    Improve performance and reduce memory consumption of in-memory
    sorts (Ronan Dunklau, David Rowley, Thomas Munro)
    </para>
    </listitem>

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