Re: Hot Standby: Relation-specific deferred conflict resolution

Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>

From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-29T08:20:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> That was not the feedback I have received. Nobody has commented on that
> to me, though many have commented on the need for the current patch. As
> mentioned, I went to the trouble of running a meeting to gain additional
> feedback and the result was very clear.

I don't have a technical opinion about this problem yet as I haven't
tested HS+SR yet but I'm not sure it's a good idea to base technical
decisions and priorities on user polls (I'm pretty sure most of them
don't use HS+SR as much as Heikki these days).
If you ask people what they want in their future cars, they won't
answer they want wheels or an engine: it's something obvious for them.
AFAICS (but I might be wrong), you asked this question to people who
are interested in HS+SR but don't have any idea of what it's like to
use HS+SR daily with or without this limitation.

There are perhaps better arguments for not doing it but this one seems
a bit weird to me.

-- 
Guillaume