Re: Defaults for replication/backup

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> I think we are far too close to beta1 to begin bikeshedding this.
> >> Changing the defaults is not going to be uncontroversial, and it's not
> >> something I think we should rush into.
>
> > I think that may be a case of the good old letting perfection get in the
> > way of progress. We can be pretty sure that whatever we decide to do (now
> > or later) will not be perfect. But we can be equally sure that it will be
> > better than what we have today in most cases. But that's just me...
>
> I'm with Robert. Such a discussion is morally indistinguishable from a
> new feature, and so we shouldn't consider it at this point in the cycle
> --- even if it seemed likely that we could easily get to a consensus,
> which I doubt. If we'd dealt with the issue back in February when the
> previous discussion happened, that'd be fine, but now's not the time
> to decide it has to be resolved for 9.6.
>
>

Fair enough, I'll drop it for now. And try to figure out how to move it
along again once we've opened the next branch.

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