Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded)
Date: 2018-05-10 21:42:48
Message-ID: 13499.1525988568@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> writes:
>> On May 10, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> OTOH, in view of Josh's old gripe, maybe it could be argued to be a bug
>> fix, at least on platforms where it does anything.

> Read back to get some history/context on this, and from my vantage
> point it sounds like this is fixing a bug (i.e. incorrect behavior). It also sounds
> like based on the changes the earliest we’d be able to commit is is 11 and
> not any further because people could be expecting the incorrect behavior to
> happen, and thus we may break existing systems.

Yeah, given the small number of complaints, I doubt back-patching would
be a good idea.

Seems like we should just leave this for v12.

regards, tom lane

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