| From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Steve Singer <steve(at)ssinger(dot)info>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: snapshot too old, configured by time |
| Date: | 2016-04-18 12:31:10 |
| Message-ID: | CACjxUsO4bZ9798atgtUycaSwc42=LD7_hdPx9EkR1b3rGqq4Dg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> After struggling with back-patching a GIN bug fix, I wish to offer up the
>> considered opinion that this was an impressively bad idea. It's inserted
>> 450 or so pain points for back-patching, which we will have to deal with
>> for the next five years.
> I understand the backpatching pain argument, but my opinion was the
> contrary of yours even so.
The other possibility would be to backpatch the no-op patch which
just uses the new syntax without any change in semantics.
I'm not arguing for that; just putting it on the table....
--
Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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