Re: Postgres 9.6 scariest patch tournament

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:06:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >> I would have appreciated more scope to say how confident I am in
> >> my prediction, and how scary in absolute terms I consider the
> >> scariest patches to be.
>
> > It was purposefully ambiguous. Maybe it should have been stated
> > explicitely.
>
> I was thinking about complaining that "scariest" and "most bugs" are
> not the same thing. Features you can turn off are not very scary,
> even if they're full of bugs (cough ... parallel query ... cough),
> because we could just ship 'em disabled by default until there's
> more reason to trust them. What I find scary is patches that can
> break existing use-cases with no simple workaround. I'm not sure
> which one to vote for yet.

There's space on the ballot for up to three, and it appears to be a
ranked choice or similar preference system.

Cheers,
David.
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