Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C2FB5DC35 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:52:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94246-05 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:52:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.8.0-rc2 Received: from smtp.01.com (smtp.01.com [216.115.88.169]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3426B5DC20 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:52:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-out-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D95BA08093 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp-out-2.01.com Received: from smtp.01.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-out-2.01.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qPUXfVgoygub for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-out-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B455A081D4 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from Sidney-Stratton.local (70-36-143-92.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [70.36.143.92]) by smtp-out-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DAB4EA08093 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4EAB2407.2080407@agliodbs.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:52:07 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL Experts Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: So where are we on the open commitfest? References: <28669.1319831456@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.899 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201110/1566 X-Sequence-Number: 197372 >> This one also seems to be lacking consensus more than anything else. >> What do we do about that? > > I'll re-read the thread in detail to see if I can break impasse. When we last left it, I pointed out to you that 100% backwards compatibility is impossible: we simply can't maintain recovery.conf as a trigger file and also clean up the broken API. You had no response for how to resolve that. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com