On 12/11/18 9:44 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-12-12 11:32:55 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>
>> +1 on all that. Per the trend of this thread, I see a bunch of
>> committers and contributors commenting about *not* removing this code,
>> so sending a patch to actually remove it looks like a throw into an
>> abysmal void.
>
> I don't think it's as clear as you make it out to be:
>
> In favor:
> - David Steele
> - Andres Freund
> - Stephen Frost, I think
> Against:
> - Simon Riggs
> - Robert Haas
> - Michael Paquier
> - Andreas Karlsson
> - Peter Eisentraut, I think
>
> While that's clearly lopsided, I still think it's pretty darn absurd to
> call such a situation "a throw into an abysmal void".
I didn't get the impression that Peter was against, he just thought that
it needed to stand on its own, rather than be justified by the
recovery.conf changes, which I agree with.
Simon rather clearly said that he thinks we should wait until the next
release, which I don't see as being entirely against.
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net