Re: needless complexity in StartupXLOG

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-07-29T19:16:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2021-07-29 12:49:19 +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 3:28 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >
> > [1] I really wish somebody had the energy to just remove single user and
> > bootstrap modes. The degree to which they increase complexity in the rest of
> > the system is entirely unreasonable. There's not actually any reason
> > bootstrapping can't happen with checkpointer et al running, it's just
> > autovacuum that'd need to be blocked.
> 
> Any objection to adding an entry for that in the wiki TODO?

Not sure there's enough concensus on the idea for that. I personally
think that's a good approach at reducing relevant complexity, but I
don't know if anybody agrees...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Revert "Add new simple TAP test for tablespaces."

  2. Remove unnecessary call to ReadCheckpointRecord().