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.) -- Michael
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