Re: CLUSTER FREEZE

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 08:39 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> If we do add FREEZE, all we would be doing is delaying the time
>> when all CLUSTER operations will use FREEZE, and hence debugging
>> will be just as difficult.  My point is that will full
>> knowledge, everyone would use FREEZE unless they expect MVCC
>> bugs, which is going to be an almost zero population.
>
> +1

+1

> None of our users would willingly choose worse performance over
> the 0.1% possibility of needing to analyze a transaction failure.

I assume that's intended to represent the lifetime probability that
a typical user would ever benefit, not per year or per transaction.
Even as a lifetime number, it seems high unless we're specifically
talking about hackers.

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