Re: Syscaches should store negative entries, too

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Syscaches should store negative entries, too
Date: 2002-02-01 22:57:59
Message-ID: 200202012257.g11MvxG03697@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Actually, that is not our standard comment. We want to give people a
> > limited set of meaningful options. If then want billions of options,
> > they should use Oracle. :-)
>
> In that case we have to decide for the user for which case we optimize
> and give user suboptimal performanse for the _other_ case.

If we can't decide, and it is significant, we have to give any option,
but only if both are true.

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