Hi, On 2019-03-01 14:17:33 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > OTOH, as the main reason for wanting to disable truncation is that a > > user is getting very undesirable HS conflicts, it doesn't seem right to > > force them to change the reloption on all tables, and then somehow force > > it to be set on all tables created at a later stage. I'm not sure how > > that'd be better? > > I think we should reject the whole patch, tbh, and go do something > about the underlying problem instead. Once we've made truncation > not require AEL, this will be nothing but a legacy wart that we'll > have a hard time getting rid of.
IDK, it's really painful in the field, and I'm not quite seeing us getting rid of the AEL for v12. I think it's a wart, but one that works around a pretty important usability issue. And I think we should just remove the GUC without any sort of deprecation afterwards, if necessary we can add a note to the docs to that effect. It's not like preventing truncation from happening is a very intrusive / dangerous thing to do. Greetings, Andres Freund
