On 2014-04-04 12:56:55 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
>
> > On 04.04.2014, at 09:40, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure how much additional work is required to sort this out,
> > but to me it looks more realistic to target 9.5 than 9.4, so at this
> > point I tend to think that the patch ought to be marked as returned
> > with feedback.
>
> I think the patch is worthwhile, even without this additional
> optimization. In fact, If the optimization was part of the patch,
> there would probably be calls to factor it out, on the ground that the
> patch is already rather large.
>
> I don't see what bumping the whole thing to 9.5 buys, compared do
> applying what we have now, and optimizing in 9.5 further.
From my POV applying this patch can't be considered a very high priority
for 9.4x. It came *really* late to the game for a relatively complex
patch. A significant portion of the development only happened *after*
the start of the last commitfest.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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