On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 07:57:02PM +0700, John Naylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 2:00 AM Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> > wrote: >> it's just software and almost anything is possible, but in this case I >> suspect it comes with a huge amount of complexity, ongoing maintenance >> burden, and really weird trade-offs. > > And yet, many DBMS's are able to do it, so any theory about how > impossibly hard it is has to explain that fact.
As Tom alluded upthread, I think the main factor is that we (a relatively small group of committers) have thus far been unwilling to take on the maintenance cost and/or the restrictions on catalog changes that come with it. I suspect this project becomes a whole lot more feasible if we can find a way to minimize those. > It should be table stakes for a DBMS that aspires to be enterprise-grade. Agreed. I think many, many users would be happy to have this feature. -- nathan
