Re: Row pattern recognition

Hi Michael,

2026년 1월 20일 (화) AM 8:40, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>님이 작성:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 12:32:40AM +0900, Henson Choi wrote:
> > I'm writing to document the detailed design of context absorption
> > optimization in Row Pattern Recognition (RPR). This is mainly for
> > future reference - honestly, I'm afraid I'll forget these details
> > myself in a few months, and I'd rather have them written down
> > somewhere public than buried in my notes. I don't want to repeat the
> > mistake of famous mathematical theorems
> > where brilliant ideas were lost because "the margin was too narrow
> > to contain the proof" (yes, I'm looking at you, Fermat!). I certainly
> > don't want future PostgreSQL hackers to spend the next 358 years
> > trying to re-implement context absorption because the design rationale
> > was lost. Fortunately, the PostgreSQL community has provided us with
> > sufficient digital margins. :)
>
> Note: this message is clearly AI-generated to me, and these are
> usually super sloppy.  (I'd suggest to stop posting semi-generated
> messages as they tend to be made of mostly unhelpful contents as they
> lack judgement and context, but there's no rule against that AFAIK
> around here, as well.)
>

Fair point. I can read technical documentation but lack
English communication skills, so I rely on AI for
translation. Actually, AI is what enabled me to start
contributing to PostgreSQL in the first place. I'll try
to make future posts more readable.


> --
> Michael
>

Thanks for the feedback.

Best regards,
Henson