On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> [ shrug... ] I stated before that the Hot Standby patch is doing
>>>> utterly unsafe things in signal handlers. Simon rejected that.
>>>> I am waiting for irrefutable evidence to emerge from the field
>>>> (and am very confident that it will be forthcoming...) [...]
>>
>>> [...]Why are
>>> we releasing 9.0 with this problem again? Surely this is nuts.
>
> Will the docs give enough info so that release note readers
> will know when they're giving well-informed consent to volunteer
> to produce such field evidence?
Yeah, exactly. Good news: you can now run queries on the standby.
Bad news: we've abandoned our policy of not releasing with known bugs.Have fun and enjoy using PostgreSQL, the world's
mostadvanced open
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