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From David Fetter
Subject Re: pgsql: Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural
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In response to pgsql: Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural  (tgl@svr1.postgresql.org (Tom Lane))
Responses Re: pgsql: Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
Re: pgsql: Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:50:49PM -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural languages,
> as per my recent proposal.

Yay!

> For now the template data is hard-wired in proclang.c --- this
> should be replaced later by a new shared system catalog, but we
> don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta.

Wouldn't beta be the time to do it?  I know we define initdb-forcing
changes to mean a major version bump, but I also thought that beta was
a time to find the places where such changes make sense.  Has there
been a guarantee that beta means "no initdb" in previous releases?

Just my $.02.

Cheers,
D
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