Re: Open items

what about my Privilege regression failure?

I'm not sure why it's dying...

LER


--On Monday, October 27, 2003 23:32:45 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> We only have a few open items left.  Can we finish them so we can move
>> toward final release?
>
> Okay, here's my two cents:
>
>> Allow superuser (dba?) the ability to turn off foreign key checks/all
>>   constraints/triggers, not settable from postgresql.conf?
>
> We have seen a wide variety of proposals and opinions on this, ranging
> from "you can turn off the C in ACID anytime you want" to "you can
> suppress ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY's cross-check ... and nothing else
> ... but only if you are superuser, mutter the right secret password, and
> spin three times widdershins".  I am in the "three times widdershins"
> camp myself.  But given the lack of consensus, I think the right
> short-term answer is to do nothing further.  We can improve this more
> in future releases.
>
>> Move ANALYZE before foreign key creation?
>
> "Move"?  pg_dump scripts don't issue ANALYZE at all.  Again, I think
> this is not something to be introducing at the last minute.
>
>> Rename dump GUC variable to be more generic
>
> Sure, if we can agree on a name.
>
>> Document new --describe-config postgres option
>
> Go to it.
>
>> Have gcc use -g, add --disable-debug, rename?
>
> Personally I don't like the idea of this behavior defaulting differently
> depending on which compiler you use.  I can see the practical arguments
> for doing so, but it still rubs me the wrong way.  Can anyone offer new
> arguments pro or con here?
>
>             regards, tom lane
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