* Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: > 1. Do you agree that a systematic way to report what a DDL command (or > script, or transaction) is going to do on your production database > is a feature we should provide to our growing user base?
I definitely like the idea of such a 'dry-run' kind of operation to get an idea of what would happen. > 2. What do you think such a feature should look like? My thinking is that this would be implemented as a new kind of read-only transaction type. > 3. Does it make sense to support the whole set of DDL commands from the > get go (or ever) when most of them are only taking locks in their > own pg_catalog entry anyway? On the fence about this one.. In general, I'd say "yes", but I've not looked at every case and I imagine there are DDL commands which really aren't all that interesting for this case. > Provided that we are able to converge towards a common enough answer to > those questions, I propose to hack my way around and send patches to > have it (the common answer) available in the next PostgreSQL release. That feels a bit ambitious, given that we've not yet really nailed down the feature definition yet, but I do like where you're going. :) Thanks! Stephen
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature