Re: Commit fest status

Tom Lane wrote:
> What's left on Bruce's patch queue page is:
> 
> * Finishing out Heikki's patch to allow runtime determination of the
> need to recheck an index condition.  What's committed so far doesn't
> yet have any actual use :-(.  Although I intend to keep working on
> that, it's clearly new development and hence not commit-fest material.
> 
> * Design discussions about dead space map, free space map, etc.
> I think that we have pretty much converged on a consensus that the
> way to store these maps is to add separate subsidiary file(s) for
> each relation ("forks", for lack of a better name).  And that really
> seems to be the only thing we need to decide now --- there's not much
> else to talk about until we have some prototype code to experiment
> with.
> 
> * That thread about "real procedures".  I'm not seeing that we need
> any further discussion now about that, either.  The consensus in the
> thread seemed to be that having a PL that could execute "outside
> transactions" would be good, but nobody was excited about much else
> that was suggested.
> 
> In short, I think it's time to declare our first commit fest done.

OK, todo updated, but what about the "Maintaining cluster order on
insert" idea?
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