Re: Closing some 8.4 open items

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I'm excited about some of them, but not to the point of not wanting to
> >> ship beta. So +1 for removing them as per your suggestions.
>
> > I'm somewhat excited about posix_fadvise but my general feeling was
> > that it was best to do nothing anyways.
>
> Yeah. One of the things in the back of my mind is that the planner is
> going to prefer bitmap scans anyway for anything that fetches more than
> a very few rows. So it's not clear that prefetching plain indexscans
> is going to buy enough to justify a whole lotta work or ugliness there.
>
> I'm content to throw this one on TODO.

I am not inclined to add a TODO until we see actual value in doing it.

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