On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Or maybe I do. One other thing I've been thinking about with regard
>> to hint bit updates is that we might choose to mark that are
>> hint-bit-updated as "untidy" rather than "dirty". The background
>
> Please review archives, you'll find the idea discussed and some patches
> to implement it, by Simon. I suppose you could begin here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-06/msg00113.php
Thanks for the pointer. I guess that demonstrates that good ideas
will keep floating back up to the surface. It seems like the idea was
met with generally positive feedback, except that most people seemed
to want a slightly simpler system than what Simon was proposing. I
suspect that this is mostly suffering from a lack of round tuits.
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