On 01.03.2013 17:37, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> In summary, this seems like a pretty clear win for short values, and
>> a wash for long values. Not surprising, as this greatly lowers the
>> startup cost of pglz_compress(). We're past feature freeze, but how
>> would people feel about committing this?
>
> Surely we're not past feature freeze. If we were, we'd have to reject
> all remaining patches from the commitfest, which is not what we want to
> do at this stage, is it?
Right, no, that's not what I meant by feature freeze. I don't know what
the correct term here would be, but what I meant is that we're not
considering new features for 9.3 anymore, except those that are in the
commitfest.
> My take on this is that if this patch is necessary to get Amit's patch
> to a commitable state, it's fair game.
I don't think it's necessary for that, but let's see..
- Heikki
