Re: A recent message added to pg_upgade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:40 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:53:07 +0530, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote in
> > Michael, Horiguchi-San, and others, do you have any thoughts on what
> > is the best way to proceed?
>
> As I previously mentioned, I believe that if rejection is to be the
> course of action, it would be best to proceed with it sooner rather
> than later. On the other hand, I am concerned about the need for users
> to perform extra steps depending on the source cluster
> conrfiguration. Therefore, another possible approach could be to
> simply ignore the given settings in the assignment hook rather than
> rejecting by the check hook, and forcibuly apply -1.
>
> What do you think about this third approach?
>

I have also proposed that as one of the alternatives but didn't get
many votes. And, I think if the user is passing a special value of
max_slot_wal_keep_size during the upgrade, it has to be a special
case, and rejecting it upfront doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.