Hi, On 2019-12-11 13:35:26 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > While I have passionate philosophical feelings about this topic, for > purposes of the present thread the really important question (IMV, > anyway) is whether there's any way of getting a patch for global > barriers committed in advance of the first user of such barriers.
Right. I think there is. > If not, then I guess we'll need to decide which of checksum > enable/disable and ALTER SYSTEM READ ONLY is going to go first and > commit this only when that patch is ready to go as well. Or, I > suppose, commit it with a dummy placeholder that then gets replaced by > whichever patch goes first, but I'm not sure whether people would be > OK with that. I'd either add a test (if we have some) or placeholder kind initially. But I'd also be ok with going for either of the other versions directly - but it seems harder to tackle the patches together. Greetings, Andres Freund
