Incorporated feedback on PG 14 press release
authorJonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:23:37 +0000 (10:23 -0400)
committerJonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:23:37 +0000 (10:23 -0400)
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
releases/14/release.en.md

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@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ multiranges, and other data types can be extended to use multirange support.
 
 PostgreSQL 14 provides a significant throughput boost on workloads that use many
 connections, with some benchmarks showing a 2x speedup. This release continues
-on the recent improvements the overall management of B-tree indexes by reducing
-index bloat on tables with [frequently updated indexes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/btree-implementation.html#BTREE-DELETION).
+on the recent improvements to the overall management of B-tree indexes by
+reducing index bloat on tables with [frequently updated indexes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/btree-implementation.html#BTREE-DELETION).
 
 PostgreSQL 14 introduces the ability to [pipeline queries](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pipeline-mode.html)
 to a database, which can significantly improve performance over high latency
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ PostgreSQL 14 also adds several other performance enhancements to the logical
 decoding system that powers logical replication.
 
 [Foreign data wrappers](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createforeigndatawrapper.html),
-used to work with federated workloads across PostgreSQL and other databases, can
-now leverage query parallelism in PostgreSQL 14. This release implements this
-ability in the [`postgres_fdw`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/postgres-fdw.html),
+which are used for working with federated workloads across PostgreSQL and other
+databases, can now leverage query parallelism in PostgreSQL 14. This release
+implements this ability in the [`postgres_fdw`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/postgres-fdw.html),
 the foreign data wrapper that interfaces with other PostgreSQL databases.
 
 In addition to supporting query parallelism, `postgres_fdw` can now also bulk
@@ -72,14 +72,13 @@ directive.
 
 ### Administration and Observability
 
-PostgreSQL 14 extends its performance gains to its [vacuuming](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/routine-vacuuming.html)
-system. This release includes optimizations for reducing overhead from B-trees
-indexes and now allows autovacuum to analyze partitioned tables and propagate
-information to its parents. [`ANALYZE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-analyze.html),
-used to collect database statistics, now runs significantly faster in
-PostgreSQL 14 due to its own performance improvements.
+PostgreSQL 14 extends its performance gains to the [vacuuming](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/routine-vacuuming.html)
+system, including optimizations for reducing overhead from B-Trees.
+[`ANALYZE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-analyze.html), used to
+collect database statistics, now runs significantly faster in PostgreSQL 14 due
+to its own performance improvements.
 
-The choice of compression for PostgreSQL's [TOAST](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/storage-toast.html)
+Compression for PostgreSQL's [TOAST](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/storage-toast.html)
 system, which is used to store larger data like blocks of text or geometries,
 can [now be configured](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-DEFAULT-TOAST-COMPRESSION).
 PostgreSQL 14 adds LZ4 compression for TOAST columns while retaining support for
@@ -107,9 +106,8 @@ to execute parallel queries. Additionally, queries that use nested loop joins
 may see performance benefits through additional caching that is added in
 PostgreSQL 14.
 
-The [extended systems](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/planner-stats.html#PLANNER-STATS-EXTENDED)
-includes many improvements in PostgreSQL 14, including the ability to apply
-extend statistics on expressions. Additionally,
+[Extended statistics](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/planner-stats.html#PLANNER-STATS-EXTENDED)
+can now be used in PostgreSQL 14 for expressions. Additionally,
 [window functions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-window.html) can
 now benefit from incremental sorts, a feature that was introduced in
 [PostgreSQL 13](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-13-released-2077/).