Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
Date: 2015-08-05 18:09:03
Message-ID: 20150805180903.GE2441@postgresql.org
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > 1. Add the functions as a builtins.
> > This is what the current patch does. Simon seems to prefer this,
> > because he wants the function to be always available in production;
> > but I don't like this option because adding functions as builtins
> > makes it impossible to move later to extensions.
> > Bruce doesn't like this option either.
>
> Why would we want to move them later to extensions?

Because it's not nice to have random stuff as builtins.

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