Re: Some vacuum & tuning help

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Some vacuum & tuning help
Date: 2003-08-06 04:32:02
Message-ID: 200308060432.h764W2i01885@candle.pha.pa.us
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Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:49, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Well, the bar is lower for contrib stuff than for core, but you'd better
> > > get such changes in PDQ, I'd say ...
> >
> > The contrib stuff is usually at the control of the author, so you can
> > make changes relatively late. However, the later the changes, the less
> > testing they get, but the decision is mostly yours, rather than core.
>
> Well I don't have anything in the hopper right now, so there is little
> chance anything would be ready before the release. My really question
> was can I make large changes to a contrib module to a point release,
> meaning, 7.4.0 will have what is in beta, but 7.4.1 would have a much
> improved version. Does that sound possible? Or too radical for a point
> release?

Yes, that is possible, but you should try to get lots of testers because
there is little testing in minor releases.

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