Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices
Date: 2014-11-04 03:11:38
Message-ID: 2481.1415070698@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> On 11/02/2014 11:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nothing that I recall at the moment, but there is certainly plenty of
>> stuff of dubious quality in there. I'd argue that chkpass, intagg,
>> intarray, isn, spi, and xml2 are all in worse shape than the money type.

> Why are we holding on to xml2 again?

IIRC, there's some xpath-related functionality in there that's not
yet available in core (and needs some redesign before it'd ever get
accepted into core, so there's not a real quick fix to be had).

regards, tom lane

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