On 2017-01-02 11:05:05 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> My claim here is that a lot *fewer* people have come to expect this
> performance optimization, than would (quite reasonably) expect that backups
> should work on a system without taking it down for restart to reconfigure
> it to support that.
+1
As evidenced by the fact that a large fraction of those optimizations
are actually currently entirely broken. Without anybody noticing for
years:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20150702220524.GA9392%40svana.org
Greetings,
Andres Freund