Re: Performance features the 4th

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance features the 4th
Date: 2003-11-07 13:09:22
Message-ID: 200311071309.hA7D9MC19596@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > As a matter of fact, people who have performance problems are likely to
> > be the same who have upgrade problems. And as Gaetano pointed out
> > correctly, we will see wildforms with one or the other feature applied.
>
> I'd believe that for patches of the size of my original VACUUM-delay
> hack (or even a production-grade version of same, which'd probably be
> 10x larger). The kind of wholesale rewrite you are currently proposing
> is much too large to consider folding back into 7.4.*, IMHO.

What Jan could do is to have a 7.4 patch available that people can test,
and he can improve it during the 7.5 development cycle with feedback
from users.

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