On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 2:16 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 4:42 AM Aleksander Alekseev
> <aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
> > v2-0001 and v2-0002 look fine, but I don't like much the idea of introducing a new GUC in v2-0003. It's for very
specificneeds, which most of the users, I believe, don't care about. I suggest dealing with v2-0001 and v2-0002 first
andthen maybe submit and discuss v2-0003 as a separate CF entry.
Thanks.
> Thanks for bumping this thread; I had forgotten all about this effort,
> but having just spent a bunch of time struggling with the thicket of
> cases in StartupXLOG(), I'm now feeling highly motivated to make some
> more progress in simplifying things over there. I am still of the
> opinion that 0001 is a good idea, and I don't have any suggestions for
> how it could be improved,
That's good news, and thanks. Yes, clearly there is much more that
can be simplified here.
> except perhaps that the call to
> PublishStartupProcessInformation() could maybe have a one-line
> comment.
Done. BTW that is temporary, as I'm planning to remove that machinery soon[1].
> Thomas, are you planning to press forward with committing
> this soon? If not, do you mind if I do?
I pushed 0001. Let me think about 0002, and flesh out 0003 a bit more.
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+hUKGLYRyDaneEwz5Uya_OgFLMx5BgJfkQSD=q9HmwsfRRb-w@mail.gmail.com