On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:29 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@oss.nttdata.com> wrote: > But updating this tool can fit to the release schedule and > policy of PostgreSQL? > > While investigating the problem by using this tool, we may want to > add new feature into the tool because it's necessary for the investigation. > But users would need to wait for next minor version release, to use this > new feature.
Yeah, that's a point that needs careful thought. I don't think it means that we shouldn't have something in core; after all, this is a problem that is created in part by the way that PostgreSQL itself works, and I think it would be quite unfriendly if we refused to do anything about that in the core distribution. On the other hand, it might be a good reason not to back-patch, which is something most people don't seem enthusiastic about anyway. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
