| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, "John DeSoi" <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, "Pgsql Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Google SoC--Idea Request |
| Date: | 2006-04-25 02:56:14 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920604241956s2bdd8880q2c479740d893c6fd@mail.gmail.com |
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On 4/24/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I doubt this is SoC material, simply because the issues have little to
> do with coding and a lot to do with persuading people to drop default
> support for old platforms. Which is not something a student is likely
> to succeed at.
While the student could do some benchmarking on relatively new
hardware and make suggestions, I agree with Tom. Having to keep
support for older platforms doesn't leave much flexibility to change
the defaults.
I just don't see enough work here to warrant a SoC project.
--
Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732.331.1324
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