Re: Should TIDs be typbyval = FLOAT8PASSBYVAL to speed up CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > I seem to be able to produce these sorting patches at a much greater
> > rate than they can be committed, in part because Robert is the only
> > one that ever reviews them, and he is only one person. Since you think
> > the patch is good work, perhaps you can find the time to formally
> > review it.
>
> Finding reviewing volunteers is a good thing, particularly on these
> times where we tend to have more patches than reviews, however I would
> suggest prioritizing the older items by beginning in what is in the
> current CF (47 items waiting for review at I write this message), 3
> patches for the sorting work.
>
> FWIW, I think that this series of patches is interesting and have high
> value because particularly I have seen clear improvements particularly
> with raw dumps on schemas with many indexes (disclaimer: I am the guy
> Peter talked to regarding this patch though this was not on the top
> head nor of my TODOs).
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> Michael
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I'm willing, but I'm too new to the codebase to be an effective reviewer
(without guidance). The one thing I can offer in the mean time is this: my
company/client nearly always has a few spare AWS machines on the largish
side where I can compile uncommitted patches and benchmark stuff for y'all.