| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: v12 and pg_restore -f- |
| Date: | 2019-11-05 14:46:00 |
| Message-ID: | 8586.1572965160@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> In this case, not in the least: we would simply be imposing the sort
>> of *orderly* feature introduction that I thought was the plan from
>> the very beginning [1]. That is, first make "-f -" available, and
>> make it required only in some later version. If we'd back-patched
>> the optional feature back in April, it might've been okay to require
>> it in v12, but we failed to provide any transition period.
> ... just like we didn't provide any transistion period for the
> recovery.conf changes.
Sure, because there wasn't any practical way to provide a transition
period. I think that case is entirely not comparable to this one,
either as to whether a transition period is possible, or as to whether
the benefits of the change merit forced breakage.
regards, tom lane
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