| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol |
| Date: | 2013-11-19 15:00:23 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYXJWF3XdPZas873SkpKJWxa=3XLN0MKPEUp79e-7sDVw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Not enough. This feature is clearly being suggested as a way to offer
> Postgres in embedded mode for users by a back door. Doing that forces
> us to turn off many of the server's features and we will take a huge
> step backwards in features, testing, maintainability of code and
> wasted community time.
That's not clear to me at all. IIRC, the original idea was Tom's, and
the idea is to make it possible to have, for example, a psql session
connected to a standalone database, which can't be done right now. I
don't use standalone mode much, but when I do, I'd sure like to have
the psql interface rather than the existing standalone mode interface.
I'm not aware that there's anything in this patch which targets any
other use case; if there is, sure, rip it out. But let's not assume
this is going in a bad direction, especially considering who it was
that suggested the idea originally.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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