Re: Fixed xloginsert_locks for 9.4

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixed xloginsert_locks for 9.4
Date: 2014-10-04 15:08:17
Message-ID: 20141004150817.GB32263@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-10-04 11:07:13 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 08:04:08PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 01:57:01AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > On 2014-10-03 19:54:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > > Agreeed. Also, reality check --- we can't change postgresql.conf easily
> > > > > without an initdb, and I think our last 9.4 initdb is going to be
> > > > > 9.4beta3, which is going to be packaged on Monday.
> > > >
> > > > Good point: independently of all else, it's a bit late to be adding new
> > > > features to 9.4.
> > >
> > > This is getting absurd. The feature was there three days ago.
> >
> > My point is we have to have in there/decide by Monday or it isn't going
> > to be in 9.4. I am unclear how we can resolve all the concerns about
> > its addition in that short of a time.
>
> Actually, another issue is that we were only able to remove
> xloginsert_locks this week because we are forcing an initdb for
> 9.4beta3. If we had not, I am not sure how we would have removed this
> undocumented setting, except to tell beta users to remove it from their
> postgresql.conf file after we removed it from the server. This seems
> sloppy --- we should have addressed this (documented it or removed it)
> before beta1.

It was marked as GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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