[not_kurt_godel]

Yeah, it's OK to not know about this, and get excited about discovering it, but to categorize it as "pioneering" is, as you say, audacious. This announcement would have been better as a minor bullet-point in the release notes. If and when someone publicly points out how much faster it is, the appropriate response would be, "heh, this is embarrassing, but we didn't know you should drop indexes before importing"