From f3e47a72ed10102efe1465bc3d62b1d93ea04f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:47:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Brag about encoding/decoding speedup

---
 NEWS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ffa66a9..ecde78d3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ New features:
 - Added `~psycopg2.extensions.quote_ident()` function (:ticket:`#359`).
 - Added `~connection.get_dsn_parameters()` connection method (:ticket:`#364`).
 - `~cursor.callproc()` now accepts a dictionary of parameters (:ticket:`#381`).
+- Using Python C API decoding functions and codecs caching for faster
+  unicode encoding/decoding (:ticket:`#473`).
 
 Other changes: