On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 6:12 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > Now, I'm not saying that this is an easy journey. But if we don't > start, we're not going to get there.
I actually kind of agree with you. I think I've said something similar in a previous email to the list somewhere. But I don't agree that this patch should be burdened with taking the first step. We seem to often find reasons why patches that packagers for prominent distributions are carrying shouldn't be put into core, and I think that's a bad habit. They're not going to stop applying those packages because we refuse to put suitable functionality in core; we're just creating a situation where lots of people are running slightly patched versions of PostgreSQL instead of straight-up PostgreSQL. That's not improving anything. If we want to work on making the sorts of changes that you're proposing, let's do it on a separate thread. It's not going to be meaningfully harder to move in that direction after some patch like this than it is today. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
