Re: Improve documentation for pg_upgrade, standbys and rsync

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improve documentation for pg_upgrade, standbys and rsync
Date: 2022-04-08 05:14:54
Message-ID: ddb672a7631302921eda7dfc1b1629dc0c6de988.camel@cybertec.at
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On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 13:10 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 3:11 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > * Laurenz Albe (laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at) wrote:
> > > > Thanks for looking at this!
> > >
> > > Sure.  Thanks for working on it!
> >
> > Stephen, do you intend to do something about this patch in terms of
> > getting it committed? You're the only reviewer but haven't responded
> > to the thread for more than 5 months.
>
> I tried to be clear in the last email on the thread, the one which you
> just responded to, here:
>
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> > This, of course, all comes back to the original complaint I had about
> > documenting this approach, which is that these things should only be
> > done by someone extremely familiar with the PG codebase, until and
> > unless we write an actual tool to do this.
>
> To be more explicit though- we should write a tool to do this.  We
> shouldn't try to document a way to do it because it's hard to get right.

I see no agreement on this patch. I'll withdraw it from the commitfest
to avoid hogging resources. Thanks everyone for the review.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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