Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 22:46 +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > > I actually do feel it might be valuable. All our opinions are based on > > gut-feeling, though, so would need benchmarking to see if it's really > > worth it or not. > > > > I think we could get away without accessing system catalogs in bgwriter, > > if we flagged heap pages as such in ReadBuffer. Just a thought.. > > Well, if you or Bruce or anybody else thinks it should be on the TODO > then a case should be made for it. I have no doubt you could write it, > but the point is why would you? Or why would you want somebody else to > if you're not going to? > > Everybody that spoke on the original thread was against it and I > specifically mentioned it to kill the idea. Its just plain weird that > multiple people have given arguments as to why its a bad idea and yet it > goes straight onto the TODO. LOL. > > If that criteria is used to add stuff to the TODO then it would be > bursting with crappy ideas...
I saw people saying it could be complex, not that it was a bad idea, and I just added a description --- the idea was already on the TODO list. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
