On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know I will probably be flamed into oblivion for this but I would
> like to make a suggestion about
> the upcoming release.
>
> What if we delayed until the end of the year?
>
> The two reasons that I can come up with are:
>
> 1. The irritating (but work around capable) bigint index issue.
> 2. More importantly the recent potential discovery by Jan on vacuum.
>
> I have several high end users that are really beating their heads
> against the wall with even lazy vacuum
> because of how brutal it can be on the system. If we could make vacuum a
> little less harsh it could be
> a large boon.
Are these folks for whom the autovacuum daemon provides no relief?
I think it's too late in the release cycle to put everything on hold,
especially with no known fix in sight (for bigint at least.)