Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704)

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704)
Date: 2009-03-10 19:08:43
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On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> You're just putting the hard decision onto packagers, who have no more
> >> knowledge than you do about what their users want, and (probably)
> >> considerably less understanding of the benefits/risks of some new
> >> configure option they happen to notice.

At this point I don't know that any of this is going anywhere. I have
presented what I think is a reasonable compromise to accept the feature.
A compile-time option which was as designed all along with a flag called
experimental. Which will be vastly easier to get people to test over
time versus having to run a fork.

I am for including this patch. I believe it is worth the risk.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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