Re: extend pgbench expressions with functions

* Michael Paquier (michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> >> v40 is yet another rebase.
> >
> > Thanks. Committed after removing an unnecessary parameter from the
> > coerceToXXX() functions.
> >
> > I guess the question here is whether we want the part-c patch, which
> > removes the historical \setrandom syntax. That's technically no
> > longer needed since we now can use random() as a function directly
> > inside \set commands, but we might want it anyway for backward
> > compatibility.
> >
> > Anybody have an opinion on that?
>
> +1 for nuking it. That's not worth the trouble maintaining it.

If we don't nuke it, it'll never die.

See also: pg_shadow

Thanks!

Stephen