From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:20:16 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc PG 18 relnotes:  update description of skip scan item
X-Git-Tag: REL_18_0~11
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4879afdf5bf6664a95e9591ff975ff5c0e2985a;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

doc PG 18 relnotes:  update description of skip scan item

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=5aGnkPsLH9u1kZED=M8TKvxX2b9XmgdOe+ePO0KxwcQ@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 18 only
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
index 75cf99b6390..63ce3473dc5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
@@ -607,8 +607,10 @@ Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
       </para>
 
       <para>
-      This allows multi-column btree indexes to be used by queries that
-      only equality-reference the second or later indexed columns.
+      This allows multi-column btree indexes to be used in more cases such
+      as when there are no restrictions on the first or early indexed
+      columns (or there are non-equality ones), and there are useful
+      restrictions on later indexed columns.
       </para>
       </listitem>