Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:17:41PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-04-08 09:26:42 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> Lastly, with the ongoing world events, perhaps time that could have been
>> dedicated to this and other patches likely affected their completion. I
>> know most things in my life take way longer than they used to (e.g.
>> taking out the trash/recycles has gone from a 15s to 240s routine). The
>> same could be said about other patches as well, but this one has a far
>> greater impact (a double-edged sword, of course) given it's a feature
>> that everyone uses in PostgreSQL ;)
>
> I'm obviously not alone in that, so I agree that it's not an argument
> pro/con anything.
>
> But this definitely is the case for me. Leaving aside the general dread,
> not having a quiet home-office, nor good exercise, is definitely not
> helping.

Another factor to be careful of is that by committing a new feature in
a release cycle, you actually need to think about the extra amount of
resources you may need to address comments and issues about it in time
during the beta/stability period, and that more care is likely needed
if you commit something at the end of the cycle. On top of that,
currently, that's a bit hard to plan one or two weeks ahead if help is
needed to stabilize something you worked on. I am pretty sure that
we'll be able to sort things out with a collective effort though.
--
Michael