Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade

Robert,

big thanks for your review. I think #1 is still partially valid, because it
contains general cleanups, but part of it is not necessary now. #2, #3 and #4
you can move to return with feedback section.

Thanks Zdenek

Robert Haas napsal(a):
> Zdenek -
>
> I am a bit murky on where we stand with upgrade-in-place in terms of
> reviewing. Initially, you had submitted four patches for this
> commitfest:
>
> 1. htup and bufpage API clean up
> 2. HeapTuple version extension + code cleanup
> 3. In-place online upgrade
> 4. Extending pg_class info + more flexible TOAST chunk size
>
> I think that it was decided that replacing the heap tuple access
> macros with function calls was not acceptable, so I have moved patches
> #1 and #2 to the "Returned with feedback" section. I thought that
> perhaps the third patch could be salvaged, but the consensus seemed to
> be to go in a new direction, so I'm thinking that one should probably
> be moved to "Returned with feedback" as well. However, I'm not clear
> on whether you will be submitting something else instead and whether
> that thing should be considered material for this commitfest. Can you
> let me know how you are thinking about this?
>
> With respect to #4, I know that Alvaro submitted a draft patch, but
> I'm not clear on whether that needs to be reviewed, because:
>
> - I'm not sure whether it's close enough to being finished for a
> review to be a good use of time.
> - I'm not sure how much you and Heikki have already reviewed it.
> - I'm not sure whether this patch buys us anything by itself.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ...Robert