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From: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry  restoring the next WAL
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:11:01 +0000
Message-ID: <1265911861.7341.2266.camel@ebony> (raw)
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On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 19:29 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> > * Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> [100211 09:17]:
> > 
> >> Yeah, if you're careful about that, then this change isn't required. But
> >> pg_standby protects against that, so I think it'd be reasonable to have
> >> the same level of protection built-in. It's not a lot of code.
> > 
> > This 1 check isn't, but what about the rest of the things pg_standby
> > does.  How much functionality should we bring it?  Ideally, "all" of it.
> 
> Well, how about we bite the bullet then and add enough bells and
> whistles to the backend that pg_standby really isn't needed anymore, and
> remove it from contrib?
> 
> Looking at the options to pg_standby, we're not missing much:

You're attitude to this makes me laugh, and cry. 

Removing pg_standby can be done and if you manage it well, I would be
happy. I laugh because it seems like you think I have some ego tied up
in it. It's hardly my finest hour of coding, especially since I've not
had the ability to improve it much before now.

Not missing *much*?! I cry because you're so blase about missing one or
two essential features that took years to put in place. Keeping
pg_standby at least guarantees we can do something about it when we
discover you didn't do a good enough job removing it.

-- 
 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com




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