Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Simon Riggs <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Zheng Li <zhengli10(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <nasbyj(at)amazon(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers
Date: 2022-11-21 17:11:47
Message-ID: 3213429.1669050707@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The reason that I pushed back -- not as successfully as I would have
> liked -- on the changes to pg_stop_backup / pg_start_backup is that I
> know there are people using the old method successfully, and it's not
> just a 1:1 substitution. Here I don't, and it is. I'm totally open to
> the feedback that such people exist and to hearing why adopting one of
> the newer methods would be a problem for them, if that's the case. But
> if there's no evidence that such people exist or that changing is a
> problem for them, I don't think waiting 5 years on principle is good
> for the project.

We make incompatible changes in every release; see the release notes.
Unless somebody can give a plausible use-case where this'd be a
difficult change to deal with, I concur that we don't need to
deprecate it ahead of time.

regards, tom lane

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