Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Anything changing filenames will break every HA config anybody has
> anywhere.
This seems like nonsense to me. How many external scripts are likely to
know that we skip the FF page? There might be some, but not many.
> So you can pretty much kiss goodbye to the idea of pg_upgrade.
And that is certainly nonsense. I don't think pg_upgrade even knows
about this, and if it does we can surely fix it.
> For me, this one thing alone is sufficient to force next release to be
> 10.0.
Huh? We make incompatible changes in major versions all the time.
This one does not appear to me to be worse than many others.
regards, tom lane