| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, vadim4o(at)email(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Re: beta5 ... |
| Date: | 2001-02-17 18:14:59 |
| Message-ID: | 200102171814.NAA24669@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > The easy fix is to just set the delay to zero. Looks like that will fix
> > most of the problem.
>
> Except that Vadim had a reason for setting it to 5, and I'm loath to see
> that changed unless someone actaully understands the ramifications other
> then increasing performance ...
See post from a few minutes ago with analysis of purpose and actual
affect of Vadim's parameter. I objected to the delay when it was
introduced because of my analysis, but Vadim's argument is that 5
microseconds is very small delay, just enough to yield the CPU. We now
see that is much longer than that.
>
> > The near-committers thing may indeed be overkill, and certainly is not
> > worth holding beta.
>
> What is this 'near-committers thing'??
Other backends about to commit.
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