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On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:22:30 -0300 (ADT)
> From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
> To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Cc: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>,
>     PostgreSQL Developers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.5.2 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
> > > Are we going to release subj in near future?
> > > If yes then please wait a few days -
> > 
> > Also, I'd like to see if we can't resolve Adriaan Joubert's bug report
> > first.  The list-clearing problem doesn't seem to be it...
> 
> Shall we go for a Sept 1st release of  v6.5.2?  Vadim, does that give you
> enough time?  It doesn't have to be "perfect", only better then v6.5.1...

Vadim has made a quick patch for row-reusing in index file after vacuum and
I've tested it on my Linux box, 6.5.1 sources. It works fine - 
now index file doesn't grow indefinitely ! It still grows (logarithmically) 
but not as before. Of course, fully truncating would be fine. but
as Vadim said it's another story.

What's a list of changes for 6.5.2 ? I've seen several patches for 6.5.1
and current tree. Some of them I'd like to see in 6.5.2:

1. Vadim's patch for nbtinsert
2. enabling Index access for multi-column indices by Hiroshi Inoue
3. Descending order Index scan patch by Hiroshi Inoue 

Regards,
    Oleg

> 
> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> 
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