Re: Design proposal: fsync absorb linear slider - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Design proposal: fsync absorb linear slider
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In response to Design proposal: fsync absorb linear slider  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> And I can't get too excited about making this as my volunteer effort when I
> consider what the resulting credit will look like.  Coding is by far the
> smallest part of work like this, first behind coming up with the design in
> the first place.  And both of those are way, way behind how long review
> benchmarking takes on something like this.  The way credit is distributed
> for this sort of feature puts coding first, design not credited at all, and
> maybe you'll see some small review credit for benchmarks.  That's completely
> backwards from the actual work ratio.  If all I'm getting out of something
> is credit, I'd at least like it to be an appropriate amount of it.

FWIW, I think that's a reasonable request.


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Peter Geoghegan



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