"Todd A. Cook" <tcook@blackducksoftware.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The attached prototype patch does this
>> and seems to fix the speed problem nicely. It's not tremendously
>> well tested, but perhaps you'd like to test? Should work in 8.4.
> With the patch applied, the test only took 35 seconds, and the commit
> was practically instant (30ms).
I know it's faster, what I meant by testing was does it *work*. If you
roll back a truncate, do you get the expected state? How about after a
database crash?
> Is there any chance that it will be backpatched to 8.4?
Not a lot.
regards, tom lane