On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 07:32:48PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 21 December 2012 19:21, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:25:47PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > >> On 20 December 2012 19:29, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> > >> > At this point backward compatibility has paralyzed us from fixing a > >> > recovery.conf API that everyone agrees is non-optimal, and this has > >> > gone on for multiple major releases. I don't care what we have to do, > >> > just clean this up for 9.3! > >> > >> The main stall at this point is that the developer who wrote that > >> patch no longer spends much time working on Postgres. AFAICS there is > >> nobody working on this for 9.3 mainly because its not a priority, nor > >> will implementing that fix the OP's request. > > > > The job wasn't completed because the demands for backward compatibility > > were too complex from a coding/user experience perspective, so the > > original developer just went away. > > It's not too complex. You just want that to be true. The original > developer has actually literally gone away, but not because of this.
Well, Robert and I remember it differently. Anyway, I will ask for a vote now. > >> There is no paralysis because there never was a blocker, only a > >> request for backwards compatibility, which is easily possible to > >> implement. > > > > OK, and I am saying the request for backwards compatibility is rejected. > > You want to have a vote on that right now? > > > > And don't make your typical demands that you will not 'accept' something > > that isn't backward compatible. I don't care if you accept anything or > > not, we are moving ahead, with or without you. > > > > If we can't get beyond this, I need to start blogging at how insular our > > developer team is and how we need new people to joint the hackers list > > and we can start this discussion all over again with a new group. > > Yes, I think having some people on this list who make decisions after > they have heard technical facts would be a welcome change. OK, I will start blogging too. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
