Sunshine@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 5 days agoLinux 7.0 Cuts PostgreSQL Performance in Halfwinbuzzer.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down11
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minus-squareEndmaker@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·5 days ago kernel maintainers are pushing the fix burden onto PostgreSQL Maybe it isn’t applicable in this context, but didn’t Linus Torvalds send an angry email on an adjacent topic, but regarding the same philosophy? Found it: we do not break userspace Disclaimer: I am a noob when it comes to Linux and building operating systems.
minus-squareLaser@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25·5 days agoWell, technically, it’s not broken, just slower
minus-squareBlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 days agoRegardless of Linus’s philosophy, such a change in Postgresql would need to be backported to previous versions, because migrating from one major release to another is far from being straightforward.
Maybe it isn’t applicable in this context, but didn’t Linus Torvalds send an angry email on an adjacent topic, but regarding the same philosophy?
Found it: we do not break userspace
Disclaimer: I am a noob when it comes to Linux and building operating systems.
Well, technically, it’s not broken, just slower
Regardless of Linus’s philosophy, such a change in Postgresql would need to be backported to previous versions, because migrating from one major release to another is far from being straightforward.