Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would 
> like to make a suggestion about
> the upcoming release.
> 
>    What if we delayed until the end of the year?
> 
>    The two reasons that I can come up with are:
> 
>    1. The irritating (but work around capable) bigint index issue.
>    2. More importantly the recent potential discovery by Jan on vacuum.
> 
>   I have several high end users that are really beating their heads 
> against the wall with even lazy vacuum
> because of how brutal it can be on the system. If we could make vacuum a 
> little less harsh it could be
> a large boon.

Are these folks for whom the autovacuum daemon provides no relief?

I think it's too late in the release cycle to put everything on hold, 
especially with no known fix in sight (for bigint at least.)