Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Uh guys ... what I *said* was: I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing people to finish up any major development items, or admit that they won't happen for 7.3. By which I meant that in July we

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Yes, but there is a downside to this. We have trouble enough figuring out if a patch is a feature or bug fix during beta. How are people going to decide if a feature is big or not to work on during August? It has a paralyzing effect on our

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Yes, but there is a downside to this. We have trouble enough figuring out if a patch is a feature or bug fix during beta. How are people going to decide if a feature is big or not to work on during August? It has a

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: It is the idea were are supposed to go into beta with a bug-free release that bother me. But its you that's always tried to advocate that ... no? If not, then I am confused, cause I know *I've* never ... to me, switching to beta mode has always been

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No comment on a planned 7.3 timeframe? :-( I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing people to finish up any major

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No comment on a planned 7.3 timeframe? :-( I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No comment on a planned 7.3 timeframe? :-( I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August,

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: I am concerned about slowing down too early. We did that in previous releases and didn't get the beta focus we needed, and it was too paralyzing on people to know what is to be slowed and what to keep going. I

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: I will say that I was disapointed by previous release delays and will be more vocal about moving things forward than I have in the past. I don't know ... I kinda like being able to confidently say to clients that the latest release is always the most

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: I will say that I was disappointed by previous release delays and will be more vocal about moving things forward than I have in the past. I don't know ... I kinda like being able to confidently say to clients that the

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:01:40 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is inevitable that there be enough binary file changes the pg_upgrade will not work for 7.3 --- it just seems it is only a matter of time. As far as it concerns changes proposed by me, I'll (try to)

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Manfred Koizar wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:01:40 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is inevitable that there be enough binary file changes the pg_upgrade will not work for 7.3 --- it just seems it is only a matter of time. As far as it concerns changes

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Uh guys ... what I *said* was: I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing people to finish up any major development items, or admit that they won't happen for 7.3. By which I meant that in July we should start hounding anyone

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No comment on a planned 7.3 timeframe? :-( I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing people to finish up any major development items, or admit that they won't

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-06-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about WITHOUT OIDS? I know dropping the OID from some tables and keeping it for others is not trivial, because t_oid is the _first_ field of HeapTupleHeaderData. I'm vaguely considering a few possible implementations and

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:10:40 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is saving 4 bytes per tuple a darn good reason? [...] Now if we could get rid of 8 bytes in the header, I'd get excited ;-) Tom, what about WITHOUT OIDS? I know dropping the OID

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about WITHOUT OIDS? I know dropping the OID from some tables and keeping it for others is not trivial, because t_oid is the _first_ field of HeapTupleHeaderData. I'm vaguely considering a few possible implementations and will invest more work in

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Tue, 21 May 2002 09:57:32 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about WITHOUT OIDS? I know dropping the OID from some tables and keeping it for others is not trivial, because t_oid is the _first_ field of HeapTupleHeaderData. I'm vaguely

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was one of the possible solutions I thought of, unfortunately the one I'm most afraid of. Not because I think it's not the cleanest way, but I don't (yet) feel comfortable enough with the code to rip out oids from system tables. The system

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Tue, 21 May 2002 11:53:04 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system tables that have OIDs will certainly continue to have OIDs. That's clear. I should have written: ... rip out oids from tuple headers of system tables. Ugh. While certainly we should have been using accessor macros

Re: [HACKERS] Per tuple overhead, cmin, cmax, OID

2002-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No comment on a planned 7.3 timeframe? :-( I think we are planning to go beta in late summer (end of August, say). Probably in July we'll start pressing people to finish up any major development items, or admit that they won't happen for 7.3. So we've