Re: 8.4 release planning

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 release planning
Date: 2009-01-27 17:18:46
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On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> Yeah, people like certification, but they also like products that work.
> >> Did you stop reading before getting to my non-security-based complaints?
>
> > I read them, but I suspect they are issues that can be addressed. How
> > would any of this affect join removal, anyway?
>
> It would prevent us from making optimizations that assume foreign key
> constraints hold; which is a performance issue not a covert-channel
> issue.

Well, only when sepostgresql = on.

I would imagine Oracle has exactly the same issue.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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