Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> It's certainly possible that there is a test case for which Heikki's >> approach is superior, but if so we haven't seen it. And since it's >> approach is also more complicated, sticking with the simpler >> lengths-only approach seems like the way to go.
> Huh, OK. I'm slightly surprised, but that's why we benchmark these things. The argument for Heikki's patch was never that it would offer better performance; it's obvious (at least to me) that it won't. The argument was that it'd be upward-compatible with what we're doing now, so that we'd not have to force an on-disk compatibility break with 9.4beta2. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers