Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jay Levitt <jay(dot)levitt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Decibel! Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time
Date: 2012-02-09 14:52:10
Message-ID: 20120209145210.GB15011@momjian.us
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:24:49AM -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> This patch has gotten more than its fair share of attention for bloat, and I
> think that's mostly because there's a dial-a-bloat-level knob sticking out and
> begging to be frobbed.

I already emailed Peter privately stating that he shouldn't feel bad
about the many critiques of his patch --- this dial-a-bloat-level knob
is new for us, and we have to get used to the idea. We are more
discussing the idea of a dial-a-bloat-level knob rather than his patch.

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