Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallbackpromotion? take 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallbackpromotion? take 2
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Msg-id 20200421063622.GA33034@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallbackpromotion? take 2  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>)
Responses Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallbackpromotion? take 2
Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallbackpromotion? take 2
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:29:54PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Yeah, but that's not documented. So I don't think that we need to keep
> the backward-compatibility for that.
>
> Also in that case, non-fast promotion is triggered. Since my patch
> tries to remove non-fast promotion, it's intentional to prevent them
> from doing that. But you think that we should not drop that because
> there are still some users for that?

It would be good to ask around to folks maintaining HA solutions about
that change at least, as there could be a point in still letting
promotion to happen in this case, but switch silently to the fast
path.
--
Michael

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