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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Langote <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 12: Feature Highlights
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:59:18 -0400
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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:50:59PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 18:37, Amit Langote
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's true that optimizer and executor can now handle larger number of
> > partitions efficiently, but the improvements in this release will only be
> > meaningful to workloads where partition pruning is crucial, so I don't see
> > why mentioning "pruning" is so misleading.  Perhaps, it would be slightly
> > misleading to not mention it, because readers might think that queries
> > like this one:
> >
> >   select count(*) from partitioned_table;
> >
> > are now faster in v12, whereas AFAIK, they perform perform more or less
> > the same as in v11.
> 
> This is true, but whether partitions are pruned or not is only
> relevant to one of the many items the headline feature is talking
> about. I'm not sure how you'd briefly enough mention that fact without
> going into detail about which features are which and which are
> affected by partition pruning.
> 
> I think these are the sorts of details that can be mentioned away from
> the headline features, which is why I think lumping these all in one
> in the main release notes is a bad idea as it's pretty hard to do that
> when they're all lumped in as one item.

I think the point is that partition pruning and tuple _routing_ to the
right partition is also improved.  I updated the release note items to
say:

	Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
	efficiently.

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