[postgis-devel] Turning GSERIALIZED on

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 10/06/11 18:19, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> I'd like to turn on the flag on the weekend and start cleaning up bugs
> next week. FYI, this will probably harm topology and raster more than
> anyone else. What will happen is I'll turn on the flag and alter the
> 4-5 regression tests (things like memsize and a couple minor
> representation changes) that don't pass with the flag. Then I'll kill
> big bugs during the week and work through tickets. In succeeding weeks
> once things are calmed down I will change things that are currently
> #defined (the BOX2FLOAT4 ->  GBOX transition) into the "real thing" and
> remove some code we don't need anymore (old WKT parser).
>
> P.

I've no objection to this, however I would be interested in getting some 
benchmark information just before and just after the switch to see 
whether it has any significant negative performance impact.


ATB,

Mark.

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