Jim Nasby <deci...@decibel.org> writes: > On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> This is not the time to be hacking stuff like this. You haven't even >> demonstrated that there's a significant performance issue here.
> I tend to agree that this point of the cycle isn't a good one to be making > changes, but your performance statement confuses me. If a fairly small patch > means we can avoid un-necessary reads why shouldn't we avoid them? Well, by "time of the cycle" I meant "the day before beta1". I'm not necessarily averse to making such a change at some point when it would get more than no testing before hitting our long-suffering beta testers. But I'd still want to see some evidence that there's a significant performance improvement to be had. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers