| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(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 19:43:25 |
| Message-ID: | 54592C5D.7020108@agliodbs.com |
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On 11/04/2014 07:33 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> More generally, it seems like a grab bag of not terribly well designed
> features, and the features that do seem well designed seem like they
> ought to be more generic than just for int4 arrays. So to me it feels
> like proof-of-concept experimentation rather than a production-grade
> thing that we could feel good about moving into core.
Yah, as a user of intarray, I think it belongs as an external extension.
Heck, I think it might get more attention as an external extension, and
if it were external then folks could fork it and create versions that
don't have operator conflicts.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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