Re: Updated backup APIs for non-exclusive backups

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Updated backup APIs for non-exclusive backups
Date: 2016-04-12 20:08:23
Message-ID: CABUevEzF334kyp1KCvHbTK9Ea9Yxh0GPXuePj46LvK=Bb+NkOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:22:27AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> > > Unless you especially want to self-impose the same tight resolution
> > > schedule
> > > that 9.6 regressions experience, let's move this to the "Non-bugs"
> section.
> > > Which do you prefer? I don't think the opportunity for more
> documentation
> > > in
> > > light of 7117685 constitutes a regression, and I don't want "Open
> Issues"
> > > to
> > > double as a parking lot for slow-moving non-regressions.
> > >
> >
> > Well, if we *don't* do the rewrite before we release it, then we have to
> > instead put information about the new version of the functions into the
> old
> > structure I think.
> >
> > So I think it's an open issue.
>
> Works for me...
>
> [This is a generic notification.]
>
> The above-described topic is currently a PostgreSQL 9.6 open item. Magnus,
> since you committed the patch believed to have created it, you own this
> open
> item. If that responsibility lies elsewhere, please let us know whose
> responsibility it is to fix this. Since new open items may be discovered
> at
> any time and I want to plan to have them all fixed well in advance of the
> ship
> date, I will appreciate your efforts toward speedy resolution. Please
> present, within 72 hours, a plan to fix the defect within seven days of
> this
> message. Thanks.
>

I won't have time to do the bigger rewrite/reordeirng by then, but I can
certainly commit to having the smaller updates done to cover the new
functionality in less than a week. If nothing else, that'll be something
for me to do on the flight over to pgconf.us.

--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

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