Christopher Browne wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > As a matter of fact, people who have performance problems are likely to > >> > be the same who have upgrade problems. And as Gaetano pointed out > >> > correctly, we will see wildforms with one or the other feature applied. > >> > >> I'd believe that for patches of the size of my original VACUUM-delay > >> hack (or even a production-grade version of same, which'd probably be > >> 10x larger). The kind of wholesale rewrite you are currently proposing > >> is much too large to consider folding back into 7.4.*, IMHO. > > > > What Jan could do is to have a 7.4 patch available that people can test, > > and he can improve it during the 7.5 development cycle with feedback > > from users. > > The thing is, there are two patches that seem likely to be of > interest: > > a) There's the ARC changes, which really feel like they are 7.5 > development, not likely to be readily backportable; > > b) On the other hand, a "simple delay" on the VACUUM seems likely > to be useful, and reasonably backportable. > > And these are two quite different things, both of which may be worth > having.
Yes, Tom has already said "b" is possible in a 7.4.X subrelease, but not for 7.4.0. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
