On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:38:40AM +0700, John Naylor wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:35 AM Robert Treat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:40:38PM +0700, John Naylor wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > > > > I think the simplest change would be to replace "optionally" with > > "when available", although ISTR we use wording along the lines of "Add > > support for" or "is now supported" when runtime/compiler checks are > > involved. > > That would be fine. The v17 and v18 release notes didn't have such > qualifying language, for things that are less common than the above > (SVE, AVX-512), but whatever.
Okay, I will just remove the "Optionally" and see if anyone complains. Patch attached and applied. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml index 96f6c4377c9..b21549c1de5 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-19.sgml @@ -2950,7 +2950,7 @@ Author: John Naylor <[email protected]> <listitem> <para> -Optionally use AVX2 CPU instructions for calculating page checksums (Matthew Sterrett, Andrew Kim) +Use AVX2 CPU instructions for calculating page checksums (Matthew Sterrett, Andrew Kim) <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;5e13b0f24">§</ulink> </para> </listitem> @@ -2962,7 +2962,7 @@ Author: John Naylor <[email protected]> <listitem> <para> -Optionally use ARM Crypto Extension to Compute CRC32C (John Naylor) +Use ARM Crypto Extension to Compute CRC32C (John Naylor) <ulink url="&commit_baseurl;fbc57f2bc">§</ulink> </para> </listitem>
