Re: Backport of fsync queue compaction

On 06/19/2012 08:41 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com>  wrote:
>> To what version will we backport it?
>
> All supported branches, I would think.

Yeah, I would feel a lot better if this was improved in 8.3 and up.  I 
didn't bother trying to push it before now because I wanted both more 
bad examples and some miles on 9.1 without the new code triggering any 
problems from the field.  Seems we're at that point now.

I fear a lot of people are going to stay on 8.3 for a long time even 
after it's officially unsupported.  It's been hard enough to move some 
people off of 8.1 and 8.2 even with the carrot of "8.3 will be much 
faster at everything".  I fear 8.3 is going to end up like 7.4, where a 
7 year long support window passes and people are still using it years later.

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