From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: .ready and .done files considered harmful |
Date: | 2021-05-05 20:36:53 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYxD6TLbEUMnyorRFdJ8EdV8z9MCOV9qLPJr_pAqwtw9g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:31 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2021-05-05 16:22:21 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Huh, I had not thought about that problem. So, at the risk of getting
> > sidetracked, what exactly are you asking for here? Let the extension
> > pick the timeline using an algorithm of its own devising, rather than
> > having core do it? Or what?
>
> Not Stephen, but to me the most reasonable way to address this is to
> make timeline identifier wider and randomly allocated. The sequential
> looking natures of timelines imo is actively unhelpful.
Yeah, I always wondered why we didn't assign them randomly.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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