Hi, On 2018-08-01 11:15:38 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 08/01/2018 10:40 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > > If this was one week before feature freeze, I would agree with you > > that it makes sense to ship it with the restart requirement rather > > than not shipping it at all. But we're several commitfests away from > > v12, so making an effort to having this work without a downtime > > looks like a reasonable requirement to me. > > > > Why would all those pieces had to be committed at once? Why not to > commit what we have now (with the restart) and then remove the > restriction in a later commit?
Sure, if all the pieces existed in various degrees of solidness (with the earlier pieces committable, but later ones needing work), I'd feel *much* less concerned about it. > In a way, the question is how far can we reasonably push the patch > author(s) to implement stuff we consider desirable, but he/she/they > decided it's not worth the time investment at this point. We push people to only implement something really consistent all the time. > To me, it seems like an immensely useful feature even with the restart, > and I don't think the restart is a major burden for most systems (it can > be, if your system has no maintenance windows, or course). I think it a problem, my problem is more that I don't think it's really a solution for the problem. Greetings, Andres Freund
