Re: multivariate statistics v14

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-04-08T19:13:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Well, me to. But my feeling is the patch received entirely insufficient
>> amount of thorough code review, considering how important part of the code
>> it touches. I agree docs are an important part of a patch, but polishing
>> user-level docs would hardly move the patch closer to being committable
>> (especially when there's ~50kB of READMEs).

> I have to admit that I was really hoping Tom would follow through on
> his statement that he would look into this one, or that Dean Rasheed
> would get involved.

I'm sorry I didn't get to it, but it's not like I have been slacking
during this commitfest.  At some point, you just have to accept that
not everything we could wish will get into 9.6.

I will make it a high priority for 9.7, though.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Collect and use multi-column dependency stats

  2. Implement SortSupport for macaddr data type

  3. Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients

  4. Generate fmgr prototypes automatically