On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Ants Aasma <a...@cybertec.at> wrote: > I might give it a shot later this cycle as I have familiarized my self > with the problem domain anyway. I understand the appeal of staying > with what we have, but this would cap the speedup at 4x and has large > caveats with the extra lookup tables. A 28x speedup might be worth the > extra effort.
I agree. However, on the flip side, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A patch that just does the same thing faster is likely to be less controversial than changing the algorithm, and does not preclude changing the algorithm later. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
