On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Heikki Linnakangas > <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > >>> Are you saying you would accept the patch if we had this? > >> I think I would still be uncomfortable with the hacks in the page header. > > There are no "hacks". There are some carefully designed changes with > input from multiple people, including yourself, and it copes as > gracefully as it can with backwards compatibility requirements.
You have comments from three different people, all experienced hackers, disagreeing with this position; Heikki and I have both proposed alternate approaches. I'm not sure that we're at a point where we can say that we know what the best solution is, but I think it is clear that there's enough concern about this that you ought not to be denying that there is a problem. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers