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Re: vacuum_truncate configuration parameter and isset_offset

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>, Will Storey <will@summercat.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-03-26T18:43:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su> wrote:
> В письме от среда, 26 марта 2025 г. 21:16:20 MSK пользователь Robert Haas
> написал:
> > The reason why I felt that way is
> > because you were using what seemed to me to be very strong language
> > over what seemed to me to be a very minor issue.
>
> Being not native speaker has it's own difficulties. Plus possible cultural
> differences and so on. I feel emotions about "my precious thing have been
> broken for no reason at all", and this should affect the text, and I guess I
> can not properly keep proper emotional degree as I do not feel fine meaning of
> the words. Yes, I feel emotions, No, I am not yelling,  and certainly I am not
> yelling as final argument.

OK, fair enough.

> Can you please skip the form, that may be not perfect, and see the content. I
> hope that I managed to express the core idea quite clear.

Honestly, I'm still pretty baffled. I understand that different people
may have different stylistic preferences here, and that is fair
enough, but I personally think what Nathan did is more elegant than
inventing an enum type with three possible values. Even if a majority
of people feel otherwise, why is it worth arguing about? I cannot see
how this really makes any great difference.

-- 
Robert Haas
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