Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2016-12-18T13:14:06Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >     >     Again, I am fine putting this as a subsection of the release
> notes,
> >     but
> >     >     let's not pretend it is some extra section we can remove in
> five
> >     years.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Depends on what we decide to do about it, but sure, it could
> certainly
> >     turn
> >     > into another section that we keep around (whether as part of the
> release
> >     notes,
> >     > or as a separate "upgrade steps" section or something).
> >
> >     I suggest whatever we do, we place the information in a permanent
> >     location that isn't moved or removed.
> >
> >
> >
> > +1. Absolutely. That's a very important point.
>
> That is really my only point --- wherever you put it, expect it to live
> there forever.
>
>
Then in the end, it turns out we're in strong agreement :)


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