Conversation

Peter continues his frightening pace of amazing contributions to the #Postgres core.. 😳👏

Quote Tweet

Jan 13, 2021

I committed bottom-up index deletion today, which is slated for Postgres 14. See postgresql.org/docs/devel/btr for a detailed description. In short: it makes index bloat/VACUUM issues much less likely to get out of hand. Updaters are now *required* to clean up indexes after themselves.

Replying to

and

I'm flattered. But I should demystify it: it seems like one continual project to me. I had one central good idea (maybe two) that really paid dividends over several years. I think that it could easily have been somebody else if they had been willing to bear the early risk.

Replying to

and

This is not false modesty (nor is it sincere modesty). I just think that the path that I personally took is interesting and worth going into now. I strongly suspect that winning streaks in science and engineering generally work that way.

3:34 AM · Jan 14, 2021Twitter Web App