Re: Pluggable toaster

From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Pluggable toaster
Date: 2023-02-06 20:11:45
Message-ID: CAEze2WjP-mJvkQiGhfpQb6U+s9GzJSSG7cM0zDev04xyy3bN7g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 20:24, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-02-06 16:38:01 +0300, Nikita Malakhov wrote:
> > So we decided to reduce changes in the core to the minimum necessary
> > to make it available through the hooks, because the hooks part is very
> > lightweight and simple to keep rebasing onto the vanilla core.
>
> At least I don't think we should accept such hooks. I don't think I am alone
> in that.

+1

Assuming type-aware TOASTing is the goal, I don't think hooks are the
right design to implement that.

-Matthias van de Meent

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