Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

[Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > This was discussed on-list by 2 core team members, a committer and
> > myself, but I see no requirements change here. You even accepted the
> > invisible COPY optimization in your last post - why unpick that now?
> > Please forgive my tone, but I am lost for reasonable yet expressive
> > words. 
> 
> Do you think you are the only one who has rewritten a patch multiple
> times?  We all have.  The goal is to get the functionality into the
> system in the most seamless way possible.  Considering the number of
> people who use PostgreSQL, if it takes use 10 tries, it is worth it
> considering the thousands of people who will use it.   Would you have us
> include a sub-optimal patch and have thousands of people adjust to its
> non-optimal functionality?  I am sure you would not.  Perhaps a company
> would say, "Oh, just ship it", but we don't.

You're right. 

Not like we've not been here before, eh?

[I'll look at the tech another day]

Best Regards, Simon Riggs