Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:43PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've raised this before, but would like to suggest again that there might be > > virtue in branching earlier in the dev cycle - maybe around the time of the > > first beta. > > Given the am

Re: Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-02 Thread simon
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02.12.2004, 05:05:12: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:34 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I regard performance testing as an essential part of the > > release process of any performance critical software. Most earlier beta > > releases were fixing functional

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've raised this before, but would like to suggest again that there might be virtue in branching earlier in the dev cycle - maybe around the time of the first beta. Given the amount of patching that's gone on, branching 8.1 earli

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-01 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:34 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I regard performance testing as an essential part of the > release process of any performance critical software. Most earlier beta > releases were fixing functional problems and now the focus has moved to > performance related issues. I

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've raised this before, but would like to suggest again that there might be > virtue in branching earlier in the dev cycle - maybe around the time of the > first beta. Given the amount of patching that's gone on, branching 8.1 earlier would have mean

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Neil Conway said: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:08 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> There's real development waiting only for release to happen ... > > There is real development being done as we speak, that will be landed > to 8.1 when it branches :) > I've raised this before, but would like to sugg

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-01 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:08 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > When would the experimentation end, and 8.0 be finally released? As I said, this is work for 8.1; I don't think it ought to affect the release schedule of 8.0 (perhaps in some marginal way because Tom might spend some time discussing issue

Re: Please release (was Re: [HACKERS] nodeAgg perf tweak)

2004-12-01 Thread simon
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01.12.2004, 15:08:11: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:03:40AM +, Simon Riggs wrote: > > > Please shave 20% off everybody's aggregation queries, ugly or not. > > You'll see a lot of happy people. > > When would the experimentation end, and 8.0 be final