| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remaining beta blockers |
| Date: | 2013-05-03 16:45:36 |
| Message-ID: | 26547.1367599536@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2013-05-03 12:10:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Right. The whole thing is just a kluge, which I'm convinced we'll
>> regret sooner or later --- probably sooner.
> I tentatively agree as well. The only argument for introducing some
> additional location for such information is that it would be the start
> of an infrastructure for information we would need for incrementally
> adding checksums, page upgrades and such.
It's possible that a metadata fork would be a good design for such
stuff, but I'd want to see a pretty completely worked-out design before
committing to the idea. In any case we're way too late in the 9.3 cycle
to be considering something like that right now.
regards, tom lane
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