On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:06 PM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 8:56 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > I think we should move *away* from single user mode, rather than the > > opposite. It's a substantial code burden and it's hard to use. > > Yes. This thread seems to be largely devoted to the topic of making > single-user vacuum work better, but I don't see anyone asking the > question "why do we have a message that tells people to vacuum in > single user mode in the first place?". It's basically bad advice, with > one small exception that I'll talk about in a minute.
The word "advice" sounds like people have a choice, rather than the system not accepting commands anymore. It would be much less painful if the system closed connections and forbade all but superusers to connect, but that sounds like a lot of work. (happy to be proven otherwise) -- John Naylor EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
