WOwokwokwok·Jul 17, 2023
> .. and the delta code to be committed upstream is less than 2K LOC.
Then mainline it?
The last commit that /postgres/postgres and /orioledb/postgres share (1) is 6 months old for 15.2?
I mean, this is literally what I'm pointing out in my comment; you're chasing a moving target. Every change postgres makes, you have to merge in check it doesn't conflict, roll out a new patch set...
...and, you're already falling behind on it.
So, going forward, how do you plan to keep up to date...? ...because it looks to me, like a < 2K LOC isn't a fix for this problem; it hasn't solved it for you, as time goes forwards, it will continue not to be a solution to the problem; annd...
> Currently the changes needed to Postgres core are less than a 1000 lines of code. Due to the separate development schedules for Postgres and OrioleDB, these changes cannot
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be unstreamed in time for v.15. (2)
^ They were < 1000 lines a year ago, apparently. So the problem is getting worse over time.
Seems like the solution is mainlining those changes... not just intending to mainline them.
Until then... I really just see this as a postgres fork.
[1] - https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/78ec02d612a9b690... vs https://github.com/orioledb/postgres/commit/78ec02d612a9b690...
[2] - https://github.com/orioledb/postgres/issues/2