Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)
Date
Msg-id 200809242048.m8OKmA613690@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)  ("Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > The objection comes down to this: it's an extremely large, invasive,
> > and probably performance-losing patch, which apparently will be of use
> > to only a rather small set of people.  It's not unreasonable to discuss
> > just how large that set might be while we debate whether to accept the
> > patch.
> 
> Significant loss of performance for people who are not using the
> feature seems like it ought to be considered a non-starter.  "Not
> using MAC" needs to be a fast-path.

Right now all of SE-PostgreSQL is a compile-time option so I assume the
slowdown is only for compile-enabled builds.

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