Re: [PATCH] Add GUCs for predicate lock promotion thresholds

Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Unfortunately, I was unable to get the follow-on patch to allow
> setting by relation into a shape I liked. Let's see what we can do
> for the next release.

Okay, I'll try and crete a more comprehensive version of it for the next
commitfest.

> The first patch was applied with only very minor tweaks.

Thanks!

> I realize that nothing would break if individual users could set their
> granularity thresholds on individual connections, but as someone who
> has filled the role of DBA, the thought kinda made my skin crawl. I
> left it as PGC_SIGHUP for now; we can talk about loosening that up
> later, but I think we should have one or more use-cases that outweigh
> the opportunities for confusion and bad choices by individual
> programmers to justify that.

I agree. The committed version is fine for my current use case.

- ilmari

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