It's unfortunate that performance is so rarely considered to be a feature.

anarazel · on Sept 21, 2020

There's plenty performance work going on in postgres. Most major releases had significant improvements in some aspect of that.

marcosdumay · on Sept 21, 2020

Postgres usually adds plenty of performance from one version to another.

Not much on .0 versions, those are more feature packed, but all the other time.

petergeoghegan · on Sept 21, 2020

Actually, Postgres does not add any performance features to point releases at all. Point releases are only for bug fixes. You may be thinking of MySQL.

Occasionally, there are cases that could be argued to be exceptions to the general rule. But that's a hard argument to make -- everything committed to a back branch is officially a bug fix. Things like optimizer regression fixes are "performance enhancements" in a certain sense, but are nevertheless justified as bug fixes.

koolba · on Sept 21, 2020

“.0” versions are the only versions that would have a major performance change. Anything else would be a fix version.

chrisweekly · on Sept 21, 2020

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dang · on Sept 22, 2020

I've reopened your comment upthread for editing. Please don't post off topic complaints like this though. The guidelines ask you not to go on about downvotes and also not to use allcaps for emphasis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I've re-closed the comment but if you want to add to it, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.

retox · on Sept 21, 2020

The moment.js author just said that no more changes would be added, so that's one recent example. People were praising the decision in the HN thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477941