On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would > like to make a suggestion about > the upcoming release. > > What if we delayed until the end of the year? > > The two reasons that I can come up with are: > > 1. The irritating (but work around capable) bigint index issue. > 2. More importantly the recent potential discovery by Jan on vacuum. > > I have several high end users that are really beating their heads > against the wall with even lazy vacuum > because of how brutal it can be on the system. If we could make vacuum a > little less harsh it could be > a large boon.
Are these folks for whom the autovacuum daemon provides no relief? I think it's too late in the release cycle to put everything on hold, especially with no known fix in sight (for bigint at least.) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
