> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:18:54PM GMT, Robert Haas wrote: > > All that having been said, what does concern me a bit is our ability > to predict what Linux will do well enough to keep what we're doing > safe; and also whether the Linux behavior might abruptly change in the > future. Users would be sad if we released this feature and then a > future kernel upgrade causes PostgreSQL to completely stop working. I > don't know how the Linux kernel developers actually feel about this > sort of thing, but if I imagine myself as a kernel developer, I can > totally see myself saying "well, we never promised that this would > work in any particular way, so we're free to change it whenever we > like." We've certainly used that argument here countless times.
Agree, at the moment I can't say for sure how reliable this behavior is in long term. I'll try to see if there are ways to get more confidence about that.
