Re: Commit/abort WAL records with dropped rels missing XLR_SPECIAL_REL_UPDATE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Commit/abort WAL records with dropped rels missing XLR_SPECIAL_REL_UPDATE
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Msg-id 31bfe3aa-4962-955d-2f40-94de8b3e659a@iki.fi
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In response to Re: Commit/abort WAL records with dropped rels missing XLR_SPECIAL_REL_UPDATE  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On 17/08/2020 10:00, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:05:43AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 2:17 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> It's always been like that, but I am not going backport, for fear of
>>> breaking existing applications. If a program reads the WAL, and would
>>> actually need to do something with commit records dropping relations,
>>> that seems like such a common scenario that the author should've thought
>>> about it and handled it even without the flag reminding about it. Fixing
>>> it in master ought to be enough.
>>
>> +1 for doing it in master only. Even if someone comes up with such a
>> scenario for back-branches, we can revisit our decision to backport
>> this but like you, I also don't see any pressing need to do it now.
> 
> +1.

Pushed, thanks!

- Heikki



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