| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, FAST PostgreSQL <fastpgs(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Re: [pgsql-patches] pg_get_domaindef |
| Date: | 2007-03-31 05:48:17 |
| Message-ID: | 821.1175320097@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:45:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Thanks, but after lots of discussion, it turns out the community
>> doesn't want to add such functions, and I have removed it from the
>> TODO list.
> From what I recall of the discussion, the lack of interest was in
> actually stepping up and doing it, not in the feature itself.
Um, no: there were serious concerns first about the snapshot semantics
(MVCC vs SnapshotNow behavior) and second that we'd be condemning
ourselves to support duplicative functionality in pg_dump and the
backend for the foreseeable future.
regards, tom lane
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