Re: [HACKERS] [bug fix] PG10: libpq doesn't connect to alternativehosts when some errors occur

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki
<tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
>> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut
>> The problem is that if we decide to change the behavior mid-beta, then we'll
>> only have the rest of beta to find out whether people will like the other
>> behavior.
>>
>> I would aim for the behavior that is most suitable for refinement in the
>> future.  The current behavior seems to match that.
>
> I think the pre-final release period is the very timing for refinement, in the perspective of users and PG developers
asusers.
 

Sure that is the correct period to argue.

>  One thing I'm worried is that people here might become more conservative against change once the final version is
released.

Any redesign after release would finish by being a new feature, which
would be in this case a new connection parameter or an extra option
that works with the current parameter, say something to allow soft or
hard failures when multiple hosts are defined.
-- 
Michael