Re: Need more reviewers!

From: "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need more reviewers!
Date: 2008-09-04 23:10:22
Message-ID: 34d269d40809041610n5142d748p359c822627e4e09b@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think what the hash index patch really needs is some performance
> testing. I'm willing to take responsibility for the code being okay
> or not, but I haven't got any production-grade hardware to do realistic
> performance tests on. I'd like to see a few more scenarios tested than
> the one provided so far: in particular, wide vs narrow index keys and
> good vs bad key distributions.

> If anyone is willing to do comparative performance testing, I'll
> volunteer to make up two variant patches that do it both ways and
> are otherwise equivalent.

I can happily through some hardware at this. Although
"production-grade" is in the eye of the beholder...

> regards, tom lane
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