From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(dot)casanova(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM) |
Date: | 2017-04-10 23:19:27 |
Message-ID: | 20170410231927.GF9801@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 11:36:13PM +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> Thank you all for the reviews, feedback, tests, criticism. And apologies for
> keep pushing it till the last minute even though it was clear to me quite some
> time back the patch is not going to make it. But if I'd given up, it would have
> never received whatever little attention it got. The only thing that
> disappoints me is that the patch was held back on no strong technical grounds -
> at least none were clear to me. There were concerns about on-disk changes etc,
> but most on-disk changes were known for 7 months now. Reminds me of HOT
> development, when it would not receive adequate feedback for quite many months,
> probably for very similar reasons - complex patch, changes on-disk format,
> risky, even though performance gains were quite substantial. I was much more
> hopeful this time because we have many more experts now as compared to then,
> but we probably have equally more amount of complex patches to review/commit.
I am sad to see WARM didn't make it into Postgres 10, but I agree
deferment was the right decision, as painful as that is. We now have
something to look forward to in Postgres 11. :-)
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