Re: Deprecating Hash Indexes

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 15, 2012 08:46:40 PM Jeff Janes wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> > I would be in favor of moving them to contrib for 9.4. Assuming that
>> > someone can figure out how this interacts with the existing system table
>> > opclasses. Them being in /contrib would also put less pressure on the
>> > next new hacker who decides to take them on as a feature; they can
>> > improve them incrementally without needing to fix 100% of issues in the
>> > first go.
>>
>> Is there anything currently in contrib that defines its own WAL
>> records and replay methods? Are there hooks for doing so?
>
> It's not really possible as rmgr.c declares a const array of resource managers.
> A contrib module can't sensibly add itself to that. I think changing this has
> been discussed/proposed in the past, but -hackers wasn't convinced...
>
> But then, the idea is to add it to -contrib while no WAL support exists..

Which then virtually guarantees that WAL support never will exist, doesn't it?

> Personally I don't see a point in -contrib'ing it. I would rather see it throw
> errors in dangerous situations and be done with that.

+1

Cheers,

Jeff