On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:31 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2021-05-05 16:22:21 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > Huh, I had not thought about that problem. So, at the risk of getting > > sidetracked, what exactly are you asking for here? Let the extension > > pick the timeline using an algorithm of its own devising, rather than > > having core do it? Or what? > > Not Stephen, but to me the most reasonable way to address this is to > make timeline identifier wider and randomly allocated. The sequential > looking natures of timelines imo is actively unhelpful.
Yeah, I always wondered why we didn't assign them randomly. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
