Re: Patch: plan invalidation vs stored procedures

Polite answers lead to polite discussions. Caling other people names lead to
flame wars.
It's perfectly ok for Skype to keep our own build of 8.3 with given patch
and make it available for whoever might want it. At least now there is
almost good enough description why the patch was needed althou it would have
been more pleasant if the discussion had been constructive.
We didn't keep close enough watch on the list when 8.3 plan invalidation was
discussed and it came as bad surprise to us that some parts important to us
were left out.

By the way it's real nice what you are doing with in and exists
improvements. Thanks.

regards
Asko

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> > Another thing I do not understand well is how people are expected to work
> in
> > 8.3 with a function based API, without hitting Skype problems.
>
> I could understand this level of complaining if this were a new problem
> that'd appeared in 8.3. But *every PG version that we've ever released*
> behaves the same way with respect to function drop/recreate. If the
> Skype folk have developed a way of working that is guaranteed not to
> work with any released version, one has to wonder what they were
> thinking.
>
> If you need to DROP rather than CREATE OR REPLACE functions, then 8.3
> doesn't make things better for you than prior releases did, but it
> does't make them worse either. Making things better for that case is
> unequivocally a new feature. And it's rather a corner case at that,
> else there would have been enough prior complaints to put it on the
> radar screen for 8.3.
>
> What we've got at this point is a submitted patch for a new feature
> that hasn't even been accepted into HEAD yet. Lobbying to get it
> back-patched is entirely inappropriate IMHO.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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