Re: Performance features the 4th
Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>
From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-05T22:06:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote: >Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes: > > >>As a matter of fact, people who have performance problems are likely to >>be the same who have upgrade problems. And as Gaetano pointed out >>correctly, we will see wildforms with one or the other feature applied. >> >> > >I'd believe that for patches of the size of my original VACUUM-delay >hack (or even a production-grade version of same, which'd probably be >10x larger). The kind of wholesale rewrite you are currently proposing >is much too large to consider folding back into 7.4.*, IMHO. > > Do people think that the VACUUM-delay patch by itself, would be usefully enough on it's own to consider working it into 7.4.1 or something? From the little feedback I have read on the VACUUM-delay patch used in isolation, it certainly does help. I would love to see it put into 7.4 somehow. The far more rigorous changes that Jan is working on, will be welcome improvements for 7.5.