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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-07T17:10:48Z
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Please consider this as a serious proposal for tuning in 9.1.

Look: it is at least four months too late for anything of the sort in 9.1.
We should be fixing bugs, and nothing else, if we ever want to get 9.1
out the door.  Performance improvements don't qualify, especially not
ones that tinker with fundamental parts of the system and seem highly
likely to introduce new bugs.

			regards, tom lane