Re: Design proposal: fsync absorb linear slider

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Design proposal: fsync absorb linear slider
Date: 2013-07-23 07:07:15
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSOu4ao8wNfPyggcEO=66K7pUFaCXbbqZirs-n-gZqt2A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> And I can't get too excited about making this as my volunteer effort when I
> consider what the resulting credit will look like. Coding is by far the
> smallest part of work like this, first behind coming up with the design in
> the first place. And both of those are way, way behind how long review
> benchmarking takes on something like this. The way credit is distributed
> for this sort of feature puts coding first, design not credited at all, and
> maybe you'll see some small review credit for benchmarks. That's completely
> backwards from the actual work ratio. If all I'm getting out of something
> is credit, I'd at least like it to be an appropriate amount of it.

FWIW, I think that's a reasonable request.

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Peter Geoghegan

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