Re: Initial release notes created for 9.6
От | Robert Haas |
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Тема | Re: Initial release notes created for 9.6 |
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Msg-id | CA+TgmoZFmJ1eSN9gjsCSOLtfvxaqgLLC1nU_-j1AgZuO_r+v-A@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Initial release notes created for 9.6 (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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Re: Initial release notes created for 9.6
(Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Please review and comment before Monday, if you can. Overall, I think this looks pretty great. Thanks for pulling it together so quickly. Various nitpicky comments below. + <para> + Extend relations multiple blocks at a time (Dilip Kumar) + </para> + + <para> + This reduces kernel traffic, and improves scalability when multiple + processes are inserting into the same relation. + </para> + </listitem> I think this should be rephrased so as to make it clear that we only do this when there is contention. +<!-- +2016-04-10 [008608b9d] Avoid the use of a separate spinlock to protect a LWLock +--> + <para> + Use atomic operations, rather than a spinlock, to protect an LWLock's + wait queue (Andres Freund) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> This was basically an attempt to cure a defect in 48354581a and could perhaps be lumped under that item. + <para> + Force backends to exit if the postmaster dies + (Rajeev Rastogi and Robert Haas) + </para> + Separator between names should probably be a comma rather than "and". + <para> + Ensure that trigonometric functions handle infinity and NaN inputs per + spec (Dean Rasheed) + </para> "per spec" is pretty vague. What spec? And how about spelling out "specification"? + <para> + An example usage is <literal>CHECK(num_nonnulls(a,b,c) = 1)</> which + asserts that exactly one of a,b,c isn't NULL. These functions can + also be pressed into service to count the number of null or nonnull + elements in an array. + </para> "pressed into service"? If it's a hack, let's not mention it at all. If it's not a hack, let's just say the functions can do that, plain and simple. + <para> + This function converts strings like those produced + by <function>pg_size_pretty()</> into sizes in bytes. An example + usage is <literal>WHERE pg_total_relation_size(oid) > + pg_size_bytes('10 GB')</>. + </para> I would be inclined to expend a few more bytes to turn that into a complete SQL query, like "SELECT oid::regclass FROM pg_class WHERE...". + <para> + In <function>pg_size_pretty()</>, format negative numbers similarly to + positive ones (Adrian Vondendriesch) + </para> Maybe add: "Previously, the suffix for a negative number was always 'bytes', never 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', or 'TB'". Or something like that. + <para> + Add an optional <replaceable>missing_ok</> argument to + the <function>current_setting()</> function (David Christensen) + </para> Adjust text to clarify that it suppresses the error for a nonexisting setting? + <para> + Improve error reporting during <application>initdb</>'s post-bootstrap + phase, by not reporting the entire input file as the <quote>failing + query</> (Tom Lane) + </para> This reads oddly to me How about "When initdb fails during the post-bootstrap phase, report the failing query rather than the entirety of the file that contained it"? + <para> + Consider performing sorts on the remote server (Ashutosh Bapat) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> +<!-- +2016-02-09 [e4106b252] postgres_fdw: Push down joins to remote servers. +2016-03-09 [aa09cd242] postgres_fdw: Consider foreign joining and foreign sorti +--> + <para> + Push down joins to the remote server when possible (Shigeru Hanada, + Ashutosh Bapat) + </para> I think these could be worded the same way. Like maybe "Consider performing sorts on the remote server" and "Consider performing joins on the remote server". -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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