Re: Hot Standby: Relation-specific deferred conflict resolution

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 12:23 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:

> Exactly. It would be nice to see 9.0 come out in 2010, and we're not
> going to get there unless we start fixing the issues that are actually
> release-blockers, rather than adding new features. Hot Standby was
> committed with at least one known release blocker (VACUUM FULL) on the
> assumption that that release blocker would be fixed by the committer
> who introduced it (isn't that the rule?). Two months on, there is
> zero sign of any activity on that front, and instead we're now being
> bombarded with a series of other patches that fix issues that are not
> release-blockers under the theory that the feature isn't good enough
> to be used without them. If that's really true, it wasn't ready for
> commit in the first place.
>
> If this were any other patch, I'd propose reverting it.
>

I would suggest that if we don't see activity on the release blockers,
pretty much stat... we revert it.

Joshua D. Drake

> ...Robert
>

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