Re: XLog changes for 9.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: XLog changes for 9.3
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Msg-id 11301.1339095124@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: XLog changes for 9.3  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Re: XLog changes for 9.3
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Anything changing filenames will break every HA config anybody has
> anywhere.

This seems like nonsense to me.  How many external scripts are likely to
know that we skip the FF page?  There might be some, but not many.

> So you can pretty much kiss goodbye to the idea of pg_upgrade.

And that is certainly nonsense.  I don't think pg_upgrade even knows
about this, and if it does we can surely fix it.

> For me, this one thing alone is sufficient to force next release to be
> 10.0.

Huh?  We make incompatible changes in major versions all the time.
This one does not appear to me to be worse than many others.
        regards, tom lane


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