Hi, On 2022-03-03 16:07:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:29 PM Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > > I'm still hopeful we get to advance this early in 16 because I think > > everyone agrees the feature would be great. > > I'm not saying this patch can't make progress, but I think the chances > of this being ready to commit any time in the v16 release cycle, let > alone at the beginning, are low. This patch set has been around since > 2019, and here Andres and I are saying it's not even really reviewable > in the shape that it's in. I have done some review of it previously, > BTW, but eventually I gave up because it just didn't seem like we were > making any progress. And then a long time after that people were still > finding many server crashes with relatively simple test cases. > > I agree that the feature is desirable, but I think getting there is > going to require a huge amount of effort that may amount to a total > rewrite of the patch.
Agreed. I think this needs very fundamental design work, and the patch itself isn't worth reviewing until that's tackled. Greetings, Andres Freund
