Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-26T16:16:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  1. Add bytea_agg, parallel to string_agg.

  2. Fix ALTER TABLE ONLY .. DROP CONSTRAINT.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

>> It's not me you block Robert, I'm not actually a user and I will sleep
>> well whatever happens, happy that I tried to resolve this. Users watch
>> and remember.
>
> If you are proposing that I should worry about a posse of angry
> PostgreSQL users hunting me down (or abandoning the product) because I
> agreed with Tom Lane on the necessity of reverting one of your
> patches, then I'm willing to take that chance.  For one thing, there's
> a pretty good chance they'll go after Tom first.  For two things,
> there's at least an outside chance I might be rescued by an
> alternative posse who supports our tradition of putting out high
> quality releases.

Not sure where anger and violence entered the discussion, but a posse
does sound amusing.

If such groups ever met, I'm sure both would support the tradition of
high quality, but I suspect they might define it differently and that
would be the source of the problem. Much like Life of Brian.

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