Re: HOT patch - version 15

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 09:21 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> >> IMHO we are making full circles here. We have already tried LP_DELETE
> >> techniques and moved away to simplify things.
>
> >> We can save rest of the techniques for beta testing period or 8.4.
>
> > Agreed, we're just fine tuning by reinventing old ideas. HOT works, but
> > everybody has their own opinion of which subtle factors are important.
> > Seems like time to find out in Beta.
>
> I am worried by this idea that it's fine to make major changes in HOT
> after beta starts, or that the attentions of beta testers will allow us
> to collect data on variant implementations.  Neither is the case.

Understood.

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