Re: Summary of plans to avoid the annoyance of Freezing

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Summary of plans to avoid the annoyance of Freezing
Date: 2015-09-09 13:03:19
Message-ID: CAM-w4HO7CK2PgzQWdn8DeYdCWYdV5v7sK_K=WtBMf-XxGyhfig@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> My vote is that we should try to get freeze maps into 9.6 - that seems
> more realistic given that we have a patch right now. Yes, it might end
> up being superflous churn, but it's rather localized. I think around
> we've put off significant incremental improvements off with the promise
> of more radical stuff too often.

Superfluous churn in the code isn't too bad. But superfluous churn in
data formats might be a bit more scary. Would we be able to handle
pg_upgrade from a database with or without a freezemap? Would you have
to upgrade once to add the freezemap then again to remove it?

--
greg

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