Re: Open items

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-28T13:56:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>   Well the reason I brought it up was the rather interesting discussion 
>> that Jan had today about Vacuum.
>> I was wondering if we were going to explore that before the 7.4 release?
> 
> No, I am afraid we are way past time time for that kind of addition.
> 

Couln't agree more.

We have absolutely no plan what kind of cache algorithm or strategy we 
want as a replacement, what granularity of tuning options it might need 
and what good defaults would be. This is the kind of stuff that looks 
simple but needs a full development cycle like TOAST did.


Jan

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