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.

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