Re: Fwd: Successful post to pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander escribió:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander escribió:
> >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> >> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > I changed the defaults for new subscribers, and also the flags values
> >> > for all existing subscribers, note.
> >>
> >> For *all* existing subscribers, or those that had not changed their
> >> defaults? And did you change just those flags, or for all flags?
> >
> > For all existing subscribers, I changed the ackpost (to off), ackreject
> > (to on), ackstall (to on) flags.  Other flags were untouched.  There's
> > no way to distinguish "unchanged" from "set to the same as the default"
> > in mj2, I'm afraid.
>
> Yeah, it seems you at least broke some cronjobs that relied on the old
> default...

Huh?  We had cronjobs that relied on ackpost being set?  Please elaborate.

> That said, I think that was pretty darn unfriendly to those who
> potentially changed their own configuration. E.g. all those who
> potentially set their ackpost to on intentionally years ago, have now
> lost that one... But it's clearly too late to do anything about that
> one now.

Yes, that true.  Sorry about that.  As I said, there was no way to
figure that out.

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