On 2014-11-12 10:13:18 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > The more important thing here is that I see little chance of this > > getting in before Heikki's larger rework of the wal format gets > > in. Since that'll change everything around anyay I'm unsure how much > > point there is to iterate till that's done. I know that sucks, but I > > don't see much of an alternative. > > Why not do this first? Heikki's patch seems quite far from being > ready to commit at this point - it significantly increases WAL volume > and reduces performance. Heikki may well be able to fix that, but I > don't know that it's a good idea to make everyone else wait while he > does.
Because it imo builds the infrastructure to do the compression more sanely. I.e. provide proper space to store information about the compressedness of the blocks and such. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
