Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing
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Msg-id 464C6A0C.9080006@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing  ("Cui Shijun" <rancpine@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing  ("Cui Shijun" <rancpine@gmail.com>)
Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Cui Shijun wrote:
> I see...
> I checked part of HOT patches(patch1), and found that it involves too
> many things I am not currently familar with. Maybe I should change an
> item to work. :-(

Yeah, that's one big patch..

> Since I only studied part of source codes about transaction
> processing(lmgr/MVCC/xact  but without xlog.c),  I want to study
> "Group Commit" patch and try to review it, any suggestions?

There's no group commit patch, just some discussion, and probably won't 
be until 8.4.

Maybe one of these would interest you:
- deferred transaction/waitless COMMIT
- full page writes improvement
- maintaining cluster order on insert
- heap page diagnostic functions

Make sure you look at the latest version of the patches.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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