Hi,
On 2022-07-13 11:00:07 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> I imagined to use B_INVALID as a kind of "default" partition, which
> accepts all unknown backend types.
There shouldn't be any unknown backend types. Something has gone wrong if we
get far without a backend type set.
> We can just ignore that values but then we lose the clue for malfunction of
> stats machinery. I thought that that backend-type as the sentinel for
> malfunctions. Thus we can emit logs instead.
>
> I feel that the stats machinery shouldn't stop the server as possible,
> or I think it is overreaction to abort for invalid values that can be
> easily coped with.
I strongly disagree. That just ends up with hard to find bugs.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
