On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 18:20 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > > I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier to put in a plugin for > > > recovery conflict handling, so the user can decide what to do > > > themselves. That seems like a better plan than chewing through these > > > issues now. > > > > Making it a plugin doesn't solve anything. This is not the kind of > > thing where people can come up with some random policy and it will > > work well. Anyone competent to invent a better policy would be quite > > capable of modifying the source to suit themselves. > > Agreed, with some regrets.
Although I agree in principle, I have to say that a plugin might make sense. Yes... the person is good enough to modify the code, but should they? A plugin allows them to make those decisions without running a custom code base for core. Just a thought. Joshua D. Drake > > -- > Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com > > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
