Re: [PATCH] remove pg_standby

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:13 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 8:36 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 05:08:56PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > > But one question is; shouldn't we follow "usual" way to retire the
> > > feature instead of dropping that immediately? That is, mark
> > > pg_standby as obsolete, announce that pg_standby will be dropped
> > > after several releases, and then drop pg_standby. This seems safe
> > > because there might be some users. While it's been marked as
> > > obsolete, maybe WAL prefetch feature doesn't work with pg_standby,
> > > but we can live with that because it's obsolete.
> >
> > Thanks. FWIW, at this stage, my take is just to move on and remove
> > it. If we mark that as obsolete, it will stay around forever while
> > annoying future development.
>
> I agree. Also, this thing is entirely separate from the server, so a
> hypothetical user who really wants to upgrade to 14 but keep using
> pg_standby a bit longer could always use the version that shipped with
> 13.

And, pushed.