Re: First draft of PG 19 release notes

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:40:38PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 8:19 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce, thanks for you work on this. Here are some comments:
> 
> > Allow C++ compiler mode to be used with ICU (John Naylor) §
> 
> That was just for our headerscheck and I'd be surprised if it mattered
> for extension authors. Also, a later commit af2d4ca191 got rid of
> including ICU headers in our local headers entirely, so that
> supersedes the above anyway.

Great, removed.

> > Optionally use AVX2 CPU instructions for calculating page checksums (Matthew Sterrett, Andrew Kim) §
> 
> > Optionally use ARM Crypto Extension to Compute CRC32C (John Naylor) §
> 
> There's no option for these, the extensions are used where available.

So, the "Optionally" indicates we use these instructions if the CPU
supports them.  I assume we don't use them on all CPUs.  Can you
suggest better wording?

> > Improve sort performance using radix sorts (John Naylor) §
> 
> Minor quibble: I think it's more normal to refer to "sort" as a
> non-count noun, when talking about a technique.

Done.

> > Improve performance of numeric operations on platforms without 128-bit integer support (Dean Rasheed) §
> 
> The intent was a more of a simplification/refactoring. Server
> platforms without 128-bit integer support are few and far between
> (e.g. S390X on some broken versions of clang, which I tested out of
> curiosity).

Okay, removed.

> > Change index access method handlers to use a static IndexAmRoutines structure, rather than dynamically allocated ones (Matthias van de Meent) §
> >
> > This is a backwardly incompatible.
> 
> I understand this whole section to be about incompatibilities -- if
> there was a follow-up mention here, it seems to have been lost along
> the way.

Okay, I have removed "This is a backwardly incompatible.", which I think
was your point.

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