Re: pg_background (and more parallelism infrastructure patches)

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_background (and more parallelism infrastructure patches)
Date: 2014-10-29 19:32:35
Message-ID: 545140D3.4030108@2ndquadrant.com
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On 29/10/14 20:00, Robert Haas wrote:
> After reviewing all of those possibilities with the sort of laser-like
> focus the situation demands, I'm inclined to endorse Alvaro's proposal
> to rename the existing dsm_keep_mapping() function to
> dsm_pin_mapping() and the existing dsm_keep_segment() function to
> dsm_pin_segment(). Then, I will add the new function as
> dsm_unpin_mapping(). So:
>
> 1. Does anyone strongly object to that course of action?
>

Nah, it sounds reasonable.

> 2. Does anyone wish to argue for or against back-patching the name
> changes to 9.4? My feeling is that we may as well, because either
> nobody's using this yet, in which case back-patching it won't break
> anything, or somebody is, in which case we'll cause less pain by
> breaking it before release than a year on. But I don't care that much
> either way, so I'll defer if others disagree.
>

+1

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