> On 25 Oct 2021, at 20:01, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-10-25 13:39:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes:
>>> Since this will cause integer values to have different textual enum value
>>> representations in 14 and 15+, do we want to skip two numbers by assigning 
>>> the
>>> next wait event the integer value of WAIT_EVENT_WAL_WRITE incremented by 
>>> three?
>>> Or enum integer reuse not something we guarantee against across major 
>>> versions?
>> 
>> We require a recompile across major versions.  I don't see a reason why
>> this particular enum needs more stability than any other one.
> 
> +1. That'd end up pushing us to be more conservative about defining new wait
> events, which I think would be bad tradeoff.

Fair enough, makes sense.

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