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Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-01-31T05:42:07Z
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> OK, but keep in mind if we use synchronized_seqscans in pg_dump we will
> have to recognize that GUC forever.

No, because it's being used on the query side, not in the emitted dump.
We have *never* promised that pg_dump version N could dump from server
version N+1 .., in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard
error, rather than something people could override with -i.

			regards, tom lane