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<para>
This was accomplished by eliminating global locks and using a clock
- sweep algorithm to find free buffers.
+ sweep algorithm to find free buffers. This increases scalability
+ on multi-CPU systems.
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<term>
- Allow indexes to be used for MIN/MAX (Tom)
+ Automatically use indexes for MIN() and MAX() (Tom)
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<para>
- In previous releases, the only way to use index for MIN/MAX was to rewrite
- the query as SELECT col FROM tab ORDER BY col LIMIT 1. This now happens
- automatically.
+ In previous releases, the only way to use an index for MIN/MAX
+ was to rewrite the query as SELECT col FROM tab ORDER BY col
+ LIMIT 1. Index usage now happens automatically.
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