Re: Performance features the 4th
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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: 2003-11-07T13:09:22Z
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. What Jan could do is to have a 7.4 patch available that people can test, and he can improve it during the 7.5 development cycle with feedback from users. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073