| From: | Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 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>, 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 18:47:29 |
| Message-ID: | 55C25A41.9050702@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2015-08-05 20:09, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
>
Extensions have one nice property, they provide namespacing so not
everything has to be in pg_catalog which already has about gazilion
functions. It's nice to have stuff you don't need for day to day
operations separate but still available (which is why src/extensions is
better than contrib).
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