On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:56:25PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote: >> > I agreed on ripping out the converter plugin ability of pg_upgrade. >> > Remember pg_upgrade was originally written by EnterpriseDB staff, and I >> > think they expected their closed-source fork of Postgres might need a >> > custom page converter someday, but it never needed one, and at this >> > point I think having the code in there is just making things more >> > complex. I see _no_ reason for community Postgres to use a plugin >> > converter because we are going to need that code for every upgrade from >> > pre-9.6 to 9.6+, so why not just hard-code in the functions we need. We >> > can remove it once 9.5 is end-of-life. >> > >> >> Hm, we should rather remove the source code around PAGE_CONVERSION and >> page.c at 9.6? > > Yes. I can do it if you wish.
I see. I understand that page-converter code would be useful for some future cases, but makes thing more complex. So I will post the patch without page-converter If no objection from other hackers. Regards, -- Masahiko Sawada -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
