On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Oskari Saarenmaa <o...@ohmu.fi> writes: >> On my laptop a simple pgbench run (scale 100, 15 minutes) shows a 1.5% >> performance improvement. > > I would have hoped for a lot better result before anyone would propose > that we should deal with all the portability issues this'll create. > >> A 1.5% performance improvement is small but >> measurable - and IMV more importantly it allows us to drop more than 100 >> lines of backwards (compatible?) code; maybe we could start targeting >> more recent platforms in v10? > > That's basically nonsense: we'll end up adding way more than that to > deal with platforms that haven't got these APIs.
I don't understand why you think this would create non-trivial portability issues. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
