Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Seems a bit pointless unless we have a better example to offer instead. intarray maybe. Or just document which logic is wrong so people don't copy that. We owe it to people to warn them. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

[HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
If we are to make the proposed schedule for 8.4 (ie, wrap RC1 tomorrow) we've got to get pretty hard-nosed about closing out the open items at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items The current list is: * do we need to worry about re-encoding file path names? There is perhaps

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: If we are to make the proposed schedule for 8.4 (ie, wrap RC1 tomorrow) we've got to get pretty hard-nosed about closing out the open items at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items The current list is: * do we need to worry about re-encoding file path

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: Tom Lane wrote: * do we need to worry about re-encoding file path names? Is there really something new here for 8.4? Haven't we lived with this same thing previously? Right, it's a pre-existing issue --- any misbehavior in this area goes back to

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Josh Berkus
On 6/10/09 10:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote: * contrib/seg and contrib/cube GiST index support have performance issues Wasn't there an issue that fixing this requires a data format change? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: On 6/10/09 10:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote: * contrib/seg and contrib/cube GiST index support have performance issues Wasn't there an issue that fixing this requires a data format change? Well, that means it probably doesn't get fixed till 8.5. I'm annoyed at

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Alternatively, we can postpone 8.4 till Oleg and Teodor have some spare cycles to look at the patch, but who knows when that will be. Not soon. So, +1 to go ahead. If this issue has existed for several versions, and we're not getting a lot of complaints, it says that either not many

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: If this issue has existed for several versions, and we're not getting a lot of complaints, it says that either not many people are using cube and seg or they don't notice performance issues. Mind you, if performance is terrible, then not many people

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, I suspect there aren't many. What I'm more concerned about is that people may have copied the bogus logic for use in their own datatypes. (Which is exactly how Matthew Wakeling came to find out the problem.) But in any case, this train is leaving the station. Can we put a warning in the

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Tom, I suspect there aren't many. What I'm more concerned about is that people may have copied the bogus logic for use in their own datatypes. (Which is exactly how Matthew Wakeling came to find out the problem.) But in any case, this train is leaving

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote: There are also a number of documentation issues open, particularly Dimitri's work on documenting the GIST API better, but we can work on those later. We've never considered that the RC freeze applies to documentation. I had a question in this area

Re: [HACKERS] Resolving 8.4 open items

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith gsm...@gregsmith.com writes: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote: There are also a number of documentation issues open, particularly Dimitri's work on documenting the GIST API better, but we can work on those later. We've never considered that the RC freeze applies to