Re: Defaults for replication/backup

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > So what more do we need to just get going with this? Given feature freeze
> > we're perhaps too late to actually build the parameter feature for
> initdb,
> > but we could still change the defaults (and then we could add such a
> > parameter for next release).
>
> I think we are far too close to beta1 to begin bikeshedding this.
> Changing the defaults is not going to be uncontroversial, and it's not
> something I think we should rush into.
>
>
I think that may be a case of the good old letting perfection get in the
way of progress. We can be pretty sure that whatever we decide to do (now
or later) will not be perfect. But we can be equally sure that it will be
better than what we have today in most cases. But that's just me...

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