On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:33:27PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I'm coming around to have a similar feeling. While having an
> > > alternative query ID might be useful, I have a hard time seeing it as
> > > likely to be a hugely popular feature that is worth a lot of users
> > > complaining (as we've seen already, multiple times, before even getting
> > > to beta...) that things aren't working anymore. That we can't figure
> > > out which libraries to load automatically based on what extensions have
> > > been installed and therefore make everyone have to change
> > > shared_preload_libraries isn't a good thing and requiring additional
> > > configuration for extremely common extensions like pg_stat_statements is
> > > making it worse.
> >
> > Would someone please explain what is wrong with what is in the tree
> > now, except that it needs additional warnings about misconfiguration?
> > Requiring two postgresql.conf changes instead of one doesn't seem like a
> > valid complaint to me, especially if the warnings are in place and the
> > release notes mention it.
>
> Will you be updating pg_upgrade to detect and throw a warning during
> check in the event that it discovers a broken config?
Uh, how does this relate to pg_upgrade? Are you saying someone
misconfigures the new system with pg_stat_statements but not query id?
The server would still start and upgrade, no? How is this different
from any other GUC we rename? I am not following much of the logic in
this discussion, frankly.
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