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Subject: Re: Improve documentation for pg_upgrade, standbys and rsync
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:14:54 +0200
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On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 13:10 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 3:11 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > * Laurenz Albe (laurenz.albe@cybertec.at) wrote:
> > > > Thanks for looking at this!
> > > 
> > > Sure.  Thanks for working on it!
> > 
> > Stephen, do you intend to do something about this patch in terms of
> > getting it committed? You're the only reviewer but haven't responded
> > to the thread for more than 5 months.
> 
> I tried to be clear in the last email on the thread, the one which you
> just responded to, here:
> 
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
> > This, of course, all comes back to the original complaint I had about
> > documenting this approach, which is that these things should only be
> > done by someone extremely familiar with the PG codebase, until and
> > unless we write an actual tool to do this.
> 
> To be more explicit though- we should write a tool to do this.  We
> shouldn't try to document a way to do it because it's hard to get right.

I see no agreement on this patch.  I'll withdraw it from the commitfest
to avoid hogging resources.  Thanks everyone for the review.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe