Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljnZZ-0002q5-1H for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 18:39:05 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljnZX-000623-6F for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 18:39:03 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljnZW-00061v-VI for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 18:39:02 +0000 Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljnZQ-0004q6-Na for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 18:39:01 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljnZP-0007l4-OQ; Thu, 20 May 2021 14:38:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 14:38:55 -0400 From: Bruce Momjian To: John Naylor Cc: pgsql-hackers Subject: Re: cutting down the TODO list thread Message-ID: <20210520183855.GC8971@momjian.us> References: <996474.1605726312@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20201123153936.GA29448@momjian.us> <20201217145858.GA23260@momjian.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:52:03PM -0400, John Naylor wrote: > Related to the above, but has a more specific approach in mind. The discussion > thread is not useful for getting one's head around how to think about the > problem, much less to decide if it's worth working on -- it's mostly > complaining about the review process. Independent of that, the idea of > inspecting the buffer cache seems impractical. Yes, I think you are right about all of these. -- Bruce Momjian https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.