Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc:
Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>,"Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:17, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> It would be nice to have this support there, however Tom was correct in
> saying it really only applies to network apps that are handling thousands of
> connections, all really, really fast. Postgres doesn't. I say you'd have
> to do the work, then do the benchmarking to see if it makes a difference.
... and if it doesn't make a significant difference, I'd oppose
including it in the mainline source. Performance optimization is one
thing; performance "optimization" that doesn't actually improve
performance is another :-)
Cheers,
Neil
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