On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:35:16PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On 2019-Dec-10, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> It's probably still a good idea to do this, although I wonder if we
>> might start doing this only when actually running out of bits (and use
>> the current algorithm by default). But I have no idea if that would be
>> any cheaper, and it would add complexity.
>
>I'm under the impression that this patch is proposed for backpatching,
>and that in master we can simply increase the hash width.
>
Possibly, although AFAIK we don't have that patch yet, and I don't
recall any measurements (so it might have overhead too, not sure). But
it's true additional complexity might complicate backpatching.
regards
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