Re: close() vs. closesocket() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: close() vs. closesocket()
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Msg-id 200304251616.h3PGG8A24353@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: close() vs. closesocket()  (pgsql@mohawksoft.com)
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pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > We have never been into abstraction for the sake of abstraction. 
> >> 
> >> Would you say that is a *good* thing or a *bad* thing?
> > 
> > A good thing --- too much abstraction is bad --- look at Mozilla for a
> > chilling example.
> >
> Anyone can find a *bad* example of something good. I did justify my
> statement with a "reasonable" cause.

Mozilla is an example of a case where too much abstraction is bad ---
hence supporting my statement:

> >> > We have never been into abstraction for the sake of abstraction. 

As far as examples, we are doing a few you mention already, and will
review the others once we are done.  If there are too many special
cases, we can look at abstraction, but there has to be more than what I
have seen so far.

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