On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 17:20, Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks> wrote: > > This is somewhat orthogonal to the topic of threading but relevant to the use > of resources. > > If we are going to undertake some hard problems perhaps we should be looking > at other problems that solve other long term issues before we commit to > spending resources on changing the process model.
-1. This and that are orthogonal and effort in one does not need to block the other. If someone is willing to put in the effort, let them. Last time I checked we, as a project, are not blocking bugfixes for new features in MAIN either (or vice versa). > One thing I can think of is upgrading. AFAIK dump and restore is the only way > to change the on disk format. > Presuming that eventually we will be forced to change the on disk format it > would be nice to be able to do so in a manner which does not force long down > times I agree that we should improve our upgrade process (and we had a great discussion on the topic at the PGCon Unconference last week), but in my view that's not relevant to this discussion. Kind regards, Matthias van de Meent Neon, Inc.
