| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday |
| Date: | 2003-10-31 00:24:11 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0310301722480.24159-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would
> like to make a suggestion about
> the upcoming release.
>
> What if we delayed until the end of the year?
>
> The two reasons that I can come up with are:
>
> 1. The irritating (but work around capable) bigint index issue.
> 2. More importantly the recent potential discovery by Jan on vacuum.
>
> I have several high end users that are really beating their heads
> against the wall with even lazy vacuum
> because of how brutal it can be on the system. If we could make vacuum a
> little less harsh it could be
> a large boon.
Are these folks for whom the autovacuum daemon provides no relief?
I think it's too late in the release cycle to put everything on hold,
especially with no known fix in sight (for bigint at least.)
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