Re: So where are we on the open commitfest?

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> * unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf
>>> 
>>> This one also seems to be lacking consensus more than anything else.
>>> What do we do about that?

>> AFAIR, the only person objecting is Simon.  I'm not necessarily saying
>> that means we should drive it in over his objections, but OTOH there
>> were quite a few people who spoke in favor of it and we shouldn't
>> ignore those voices either.

> The problem is, it will break tools. I was one of the people that 
> supported Simon in his argument against. Not going to cause a huge stink 
> but it is something to consider.

Yeah, but it's those same tools that will benefit from a cleaner
definition.  Sometimes it doesn't pay to be slaves to backwards
compatibility.
        regards, tom lane