On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> Efficiency has always been one of the major reasons for using enums, so
>> it's important that we make them extensible without badly affecting
>> performance.
>
> on that note is it worthwhile backpatching recent versions to allocate
> enums with even numbered oids? That way people binary upgrading can
> get the benefit of the optimization they should qualify for...
Uh, -1 from me. This is not a bug fix, and it will only help people
who create new enums between the time they upgrade to the relevant
minor release and the time they upgrade to 9.1. We are not into the
business of back-patching marginal peformance enhancements. If we
want to have a 9.0R2 release, or whatever, then so be it, but let's
not be modifying behavior in stable branches unless there's a *bug*.
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Robert Haas
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