Re: .ready and .done files considered harmful

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: .ready and .done files considered harmful
Date: 2021-05-06 00:28:21
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZpsKKDmu6O5JLv+sRxGOWjYxvRJ0+fgRmTwJmZ1UXtPA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:53 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> I do note that this comment is timeline.c is, ahem, perhaps over-stating
> things a bit:
>
> * Note: while this is somewhat heuristic, it does positively guarantee
> * that (result + 1) is not a known timeline, and therefore it should
> * be safe to assign that ID to a new timeline.

OK, that made me laugh out loud.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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