Re: Re: beta5 ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: beta5 ...
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Msg-id 200102170537.AAA08488@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: beta5 ...  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> >
> > BTW, is 7.1 going to be a bit slower than 7.0? Or just Beta 5? Just
> > curious. Don't mind waiting for 7.2 for the speed-up if necessary.
> 
> It is possible that it will be ... the question is whether the slow down
> is unbearable or not, as to whether we'll let it hold things up or not ...
> 
> >From reading one of Tom's email's, it looks like the changes to 'fix' the
> slowdown are drastic/large enough that it might not be safe (or desirable)
> to fix it at this late of a stage in beta ...
> 
> Depending on what is involved, we might put out a v7.1 for March 1st, so
> that ppl can feel confident about using the various features, but have a
> v7.1.1 that follows relatively closely on its heels that addresses the
> performance problem ...

The easy fix is to just set the delay to zero.  Looks like that will fix
most of the problem.  The near-committers thing may indeed be overkill,
and certainly is not worth holding beta.

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