On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think we are far too close to beta1 to begin bikeshedding this. > >> Changing the defaults is not going to be uncontroversial, and it's not > >> something I think we should rush into. > > > I think that may be a case of the good old letting perfection get in the > > way of progress. We can be pretty sure that whatever we decide to do (now > > or later) will not be perfect. But we can be equally sure that it will be > > better than what we have today in most cases. But that's just me... > > I'm with Robert. Such a discussion is morally indistinguishable from a > new feature, and so we shouldn't consider it at this point in the cycle > --- even if it seemed likely that we could easily get to a consensus, > which I doubt. If we'd dealt with the issue back in February when the > previous discussion happened, that'd be fine, but now's not the time > to decide it has to be resolved for 9.6. > > Fair enough, I'll drop it for now. And try to figure out how to move it along again once we've opened the next branch. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
