Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:41:36 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 11:52:37AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> FWIW, I think it's totally fine if you say that you don't want to do the work
> to formulate performance improvement release note entries.  It's a lot of work
> to curate the release notes, it makes sense to split the work up.
> 
> It's just that the answer to proposing listing certain performance
> improvements shouldn't be that we don't include them as a matter of policy.

I am fine with listing anything, as long as it is effective and useful
to the reader.  I explained in my recent email why I considered that to
be very hard for performance items, but with help I think it can be
achieved.  New optimizer items are a good example --- we reference plan
types.  I need help in how other items can have similar effectiveness.

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