Re: 8.2 features status

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw
>> a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about
>> increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly.
>> Tom's comments although valid (as usual :)) were that the person missed
>> a bunch of stuff having to do with the planner.
>> Some of us may think... well of course that is obvious...
>> Well either the Sun guy was just lazy, or it isn't obvious. I prefer to
>> think it is not obvious.
>
> IIRC the problem with that patch was basically that the guy had failed
> to search all of the source code for references to the struct he wanted
> to modify. This isn't really the fault of the TODO list. It could be
> (probably already is) a hint in the developer's FAQ ... but I can't see
> putting that sort of generic how-to-develop-a-good-patch kind of info
> into every TODO item.

I entirely assumed that your references were correct. It was just the
only example that I could think up off the top of my head.

I was more trying to display a good use of possible dependecies.

SIncerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
>

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