Re: Reducing Transaction Start/End Contention

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> 1. Increase size of Clog-specific BLCKSZ
> 
>>> 2. Perform ExtendClog() as a background activity
> 
>>> (1) and (2) can be patched fairly easily for 8.3. I have a prototype
>>> patch for (1) on the shelf already from 6 months ago.
> 
>> Hmm, I think (1) may be 8.3 material but all the rest are complex enough
>> that being left for 8.4 is called for.
> 
> NONE of this is 8.3 material.  Full stop.  Try to keep your eyes on the
> ball people --- 8.3 is already months past feature freeze.

yeah - we have still 12(!) open items on the PatchStatus board:

http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus

and at least half of them are in need of reviewer capacity(and some of
them there for nearly half a year).


Stefan