On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:53:49PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> I don't have clear feeling on this question in general, but if we're
> going to break this up into pieces, it's important that they be
> logical pieces. Putting half the feature in core and half into an
> extension just because we can will simplify complicate code
> maintenance to no good end. The snowball effect is something to
> avoid, and we need to watch out for that, but if the upshot of putting
> part of it in core is that the core code can no longer be understood
> or maintained because it depends heavily on a bunch of non-core code,
> that's not helpful.
>
And concretely, code paths that cannot be exercised easily from
core-only code will not get regression tested, and will therefore rot.
Ross
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