Re: Cascading replication: should we detect/prevent cycles?

On 02/01/2013 12:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
>> If we're going to start installing safeguards against doing stupid
>> things, there's a long list of scenarios that happen far more
>> regularly than this ever will and cause far more damage.
> 
> What's wrong with making it easier for sysadmins to troubleshoot things?
>  Again, I'm not talking about erroring out, I'm talking about logging a
> warning.

Or to put it another way:  Robert, you just did a "nobody wants that" to
me.  I thought you were opposed to such things on this list.

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