Re: XLog changes for 9.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: XLog changes for 9.3
Date: 2012-06-07 18:52:04
Message-ID: 11301.1339095124@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Anything changing filenames will break every HA config anybody has
> anywhere.

This seems like nonsense to me. How many external scripts are likely to
know that we skip the FF page? There might be some, but not many.

> So you can pretty much kiss goodbye to the idea of pg_upgrade.

And that is certainly nonsense. I don't think pg_upgrade even knows
about this, and if it does we can surely fix it.

> For me, this one thing alone is sufficient to force next release to be
> 10.0.

Huh? We make incompatible changes in major versions all the time.
This one does not appear to me to be worse than many others.

regards, tom lane

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