Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2022-Sep-12, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I suspect people will have to manually reapply any changes in
>> the GUC tables to guc_tables.c. That'll be the same amount of work
>> for them whenever we commit this patch (unless theirs lands first,
>> in which case I have to deal with it). The issue I think is
>> whether it's politer to make that happen during a CF or between
>> CFs.
> Personally I would prefer that this kind of thing is done quickly rather
> than delay it to some uncertain future. That way I can deal with it
> straight ahead rather than living with the anxiety that it will land
> later and I will have to deal with it then. I see no benefit in
> waiting.
Fair enough. I'm also not looking forward to having to rebase my
patch over anybody else's GUC changes -- even just a new GUC would
invalidate a thousand-line diff hunk, and I doubt that "git apply"
would deal with that very helpfully. I'll go ahead and get this
pushed.
regards, tom lane