On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:46 PM Chris Travers <chris.trav...@adjust.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:09 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 09:00:57PM +0800, Chris Travers wrote: >> > I also added test cases and some docs. I don't know if the docs are >> > sufficient. Feedback is appreciated. >> >> To be honest, I don't think that this approach is a good idea per the >> same reasons as mentioned the last time, as this can cause pg_rewind >> to break if any newly-added folder in the data directory has >> non-replaceable data which is needed at the beginning of recovery and >> cannot be automatically rebuilt. So that's one extra maintenance >> burden to worry about. > > Actually I think this is safe. Let me go through the cases not handled in > the current behavior at all:
Hi Chris, Could you please post a rebase? This has fairly thoroughly bitrotted. The Commitfest is here, so now would be an excellent time for people to be able to apply and test the patch. Thanks, -- Thomas Munro https://enterprisedb.com