Re: reducing the overhead of frequent table locks - now, with WIP patch

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> If we're going to start putting in changes like this, I'd suggest that
>> we try and target something like September for 9.1 to actually be
>> released. Playing with the lock management isn't something we want to
>> be doing lightly and I think we definitely need to have serious testing
>> of this, similar to what has been done for the SSI changes, before we're
>> going to be able to release it.

> Completely aside from the issue at hand, aren't we looking at a
> September release by now anyway (assuming we have to void late
> July/August as we usually do)?

Very possibly.  So if we add this in, we're talking November or December
instead of September.  You can't argue that July/August will be lost
time for one development path but not another.

			regards, tom lane