On 2018-04-02 09:23:10 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 29 March 2018 at 23:24, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > >> I agree with the former, of course - docs are a must. I disagree with > >> the latter, though - there have been about no proposals how to do it > >> without the locking. If there are, I'd like to hear about it. > > > > I don't care. Either another solution needs to be found, or the locking > > needs to be automatically performed when necessary. > > That seems unreasonable.
> It's certainly a nice future goal to have it all happen automatically, > but we don't know what the plugin will do. No, fighting too complicated APIs is not unreasonable. And we've found an alternative. > How can we ever make an unknown task happen automatically? We can't. The task isn't unknown, so this just seems like a non sequitur. Greetings, Andres Freund
