On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:30:11AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> 528 1146 Fix the optimization to skip WAL-logging on table created in
>> same transaction
>
> This has been around for an astonishing amount of time... I don't
> recall all the details but rewriting most of the relation sync handling
> around heapam for a corner optimization is no fun. There is no way that
> we could go down to elimitate wal_level = minimal, so I am wondering if
> we should not silently ignore the optimization if possible instead of
> throwing an error. Perhaps logging a WARNING could make sense.
I don't know about any of that, but something has to give. How much
more time has to pass before we admit defeat? At a certain point, that
is the responsible thing to do.
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Peter Geoghegan