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Yeah.

Without being familiar with the Postgres source, this seems to be what I call a "somersault problem": hard to break down into sub-goals. I have heard that the Postgres codebase is solid which makes it easier but it's still mature and highly complex. It doesn't sound feasible to me.

https://kristiandupont.medium.com/somersault-problems-69c478...




The original post does describe several sub-problems. The group could first chip away at global state, signals, libraries. They can do this before changing the process model in any way.


Good point.




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