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Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1


  • From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
  • To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:10:11 -0500
  • Message-id: <20050429161011(dot)GA8734(at)wolff(dot)to>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:43:37 -0300,
  "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> Except for the surprise of peridically having the system go unresponsive 
> because it hit a large table, and that new user wondering what is wrong 
> with postgresql that it just stalls seemingly randomly :(

I think most users running systems with that large of tables will know
what they are doing. And will be more careful with vacuum.

Vacuum running for a long time on large tables with few pages that need
updating is really a separate problem that could use its own solution.



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