Thread: Re: [BUGS] PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag error on 9.0 alpha 4

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:29 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:

> > It's also my 3rd choice of solution behind fine-grained lock conflicts
> > (1st) which would avoid many issues and master/standby in lock step
> > (2nd).
> 
> Yeah, I just can't imagine you hunting down all of the corner cases for
> fine-grained lock conflicts in time for 9.0.  Given what I've been
> looking at, it seems like a LOT of work.

I can imagine and have done so. That patch was completed more than 6
weeks ago and can still be included in this release.

http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg145951.html

That is at least the second attempt at this feature and the design has
been refined over about 15 months.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com

> I can imagine and have done so. That patch was completed more than 6
> weeks ago and can still be included in this release.

See, this is why you're a committer and I'm not. ;-)

> http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg145951.html

Cool!  Will test.  We'll make this thing work yet!

It would be a very different PostgreSQL without you, Simon.  Thanks for
all the hard work.

--Josh Berkus