| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap |
| Date: | 2012-04-29 21:02:36 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmobKTYxq2oRcPZRwJNk5tTJvrAFc-MBSAGh=9bpm9cmeUQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Let's not go looking for reasons to
>> reject the approach just because we didn't expect it to work as well
>> as it does.
>
> Who here, in your opinion, is looking for reasons to reject anything?
I'm just saying that there seems to be a bit more skepticism here than
can be justified considering that the test results are all on one
side. It wouldn't take a lot of evidence to convince me that this is
a bad idea, but it will take more than none, which is the amount we
have now.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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