Re: Should we remove "not fast" promotion at all?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomonari Katsumata <t(dot)katsumata1122(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomonari Katsumata <katsumata(dot)tomonari(at)po(dot)ntts(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Should we remove "not fast" promotion at all?
Date: 2013-08-06 04:07:22
Message-ID: 13818.1375762042@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> FWIW I'd rather keep plain promotion for a release or two. TBH, I have a
>> bit of trust issues regarding the new method, and I'd like to be able to
>> test potential issues against a stock postgres by doing a normal instead
>> of a fast promotion.

> So we should add new option specifying the promotion mode, into pg_ctl?
> Currently pg_ctl cannot trigger the normal promotion.

It would be silly to add such an option if we want to remove the old mode
in a release or two.

I think what Andres is suggesting is to leave it as-is for 9.4 and then
remove the old code in 9.5 or 9.6. Which seems prudent to me.

regards, tom lane

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