Re: [HACKERS] On a somewhat disappointing correspondence

2010-05-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Smith wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > We are not very good at _removing_ functionality/GUCs, and based on the > > discussion so far, I think there is a very slim chance we would get it > > right for 9.0, which is why I suggested converting it to a boolean and > > revisiting this for 9.1. > >

Re: [HACKERS] On a somewhat disappointing correspondence

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Smith
Bruce Momjian wrote: We are not very good at _removing_ functionality/GUCs, and based on the discussion so far, I think there is a very slim chance we would get it right for 9.0, which is why I suggested converting it to a boolean and revisiting this for 9.1. There's some feedback you can on

[HACKERS] On a somewhat disappointing correspondence (was: max_standby_delay considered harmful)

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Simon Riggs wrote: I've refrained from comment on max_standby_delay because I have neither read the patch nor am likely to be an early adopter of HS; however, as a potential eventual user I have to say that the semantics for this GUC proposed by Simon seem sane and useful to me. Certainly the d