From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Inlining comparators as a performance optimisation |
Date: | 2011-10-05 15:31:57 |
Message-ID: | 201110051531.p95FVvl28961@momjian.us |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> Markus Wanner took a crack at generalizing the autovacuum machinery
> that we have now into something that could be used to fire up
> general-purpose worker processes, but it fell down mostly because I
> (and, I think, others) weren't convinced that imessages were something
> we wanted to suck into core, and Markus reasonably enough wasn't
> interested in rewriting it to do something that wouldn't really help
> his work with Postgres-R. I'm not sure where Bruce is getting his
> timeline from, but I think the limiting factor is not so much that we
> don't have people who can write the code as that those people are
> busy, and this is a big project. But you can bet that if it gets to
> the top of Tom's priority list (just for example) we'll see some
> motion...!
I was thinking of setting up a team to map out some strategies and get
community buy-in, and then we could attack each issue. I got the 2-3
years from the Win32 timeline.
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