Re: patch for new feature: Buffer Cache Hibernation

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie oct 14 11:56:22 -0300 2011:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > > 2011/10/14 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:
> > > >> Should this be marked as TODO?
> > >
> > > > I suppose TODO items *are* wanted and so working on them should remove
> > > > the pain to convince people here to accept the feature, aren't they ?
> > >
> > > There is plenty of stuff in the TODO list for which there is no
> > > consensus.
> >
> > Uh, we should probably remove those then. Can you think of any?
>
> The guideline, last I checked, was that before getting into coding any
> item from the TODO list, the prospective hacker should check previous
> discussions and initiate a new one on this list to ensure consensus.
> Unless something is blatantly "not wanted", I don't think it should be
> removed from the TODO list. There not being consensus does not mean
> that there cannot ever be.

OK. But if we are pretty sure we don't want something, e.g. hibernate,
we shouldn't add it.

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