Re: WIP: Access method extendability - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: WIP: Access method extendability
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Msg-id CA+U5nMLDyKwRvc1oFHX95prR_HRMazvjxv-V6+hvTwSD-dA3nw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: WIP: Access method extendability  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 28 October 2014 17:47, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2014-10-28 17:45:36 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I'd like to avoid all of the pain by making persistent AMs that are
>> recoverable after a crash, rather than during crash recovery.
>
> Besides the actual difficulities of supporting this, imo not being
> available on HS and directly after a failover essentially makes them
> next to useless.

Broken WAL implementations are worse than useless.

I'm saying we should work on how to fix broken indexes first, before
we allow a crop of new code that might cause them.

-- Simon Riggs                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services



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