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Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-29T17:42:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> There is not only a performance penalty, but a reliability penalty.
> Enabling these switches turns on a whole lot of code that, with all
> due respect to those who have worked on it, is absolutely positively
> guaranteed to be full of bugs.  Not all of which are going to be flushed
> out during beta.  If we ship 9.0 with these things on by default, it
> will result in an immediate reliability downgrade for installations that
> are simply doing what they did before and not even interested in HS/SR.
> 
> Maybe by 9.1 or 9.2 it would be sensible to have some of this code
> turned on by default.  But it is absolutely not in keeping with this
> project's mindset or historical practice to enable it by default now.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

+1

Joshua D. Drake


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