On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:42:03PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most > > definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... > > My recollection is that it's quite far from being complete. I had hoped > to spend some time during the 8.1 cycle helping Heikki finish it up, > but if we stick to the 2-month-dev-cycle idea I'm afraid there's no way > it'll be done in time. I thought that "some time" would probably amount > to a solid man-month or so, and there's no way I can spend half my time > on just one feature for this cycle. > > If Heikki wants this in for 8.1, the right thing to do is vote against > the short-dev-cycle idea. But we need a plausible answer about what to > do about ARC to make that credible... >
I think the idea of making a buffer management algorithm API and then preparing a simple LRU algorithm to have ready to plug in if the ARC patent is granted would be doable in a short development cycle. Then we can take advantage of as well as test other algorithms more easily. Ken ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
