Re: Re: beta5 ...

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > >
> > > BTW, is 7.1 going to be a bit slower than 7.0? Or just Beta 5? Just
> > > curious. Don't mind waiting for 7.2 for the speed-up if necessary.
> >
> > It is possible that it will be ... the question is whether the slow down
> > is unbearable or not, as to whether we'll let it hold things up or not ...
> >
> > >From reading one of Tom's email's, it looks like the changes to 'fix' the
> > slowdown are drastic/large enough that it might not be safe (or desirable)
> > to fix it at this late of a stage in beta ...
> >
> > Depending on what is involved, we might put out a v7.1 for March 1st, so
> > that ppl can feel confident about using the various features, but have a
> > v7.1.1 that follows relatively closely on its heels that addresses the
> > performance problem ...
>
> The easy fix is to just set the delay to zero. Looks like that will fix
> most of the problem.

Except that Vadim had a reason for setting it to 5, and I'm loath to see
that changed unless someone actaully understands the ramifications other
then increasing performance ...

> The near-committers thing may indeed be overkill, and certainly is not
> worth holding beta.

What is this 'near-committers thing'??