| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Load Distributed Checkpoints test results |
| Date: | 2007-06-20 21:00:40 |
| Message-ID: | 46799578.1070207@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> I don't expect this patch to be perfect when it is applied. I do expect
> to be a best effort, and it will get continual real-world testing during
> beta and we can continue to improve this. Right now, we know we have a
> serious issue with checkpoint I/O, and this patch is going to improve
> that in most cases. I don't want to see us reject it or greatly delay
> beta as we try to make it perfect.
>
> My main point is that should keep trying to make the patch better, but
> the patch doesn't have to be perfect to get applied. I don't want us to
> get into a death-by-testing spiral.
Death by testing? The only comment I have is that is could be useful to
be able to turn this feature off via GUC. Other than that, I think it is
great.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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