Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
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Msg-id 20150805180903.GE2441@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > 1. Add the functions as a builtins.
> >    This is what the current patch does.  Simon seems to prefer this,
> >    because he wants the function to be always available in production;
> >    but I don't like this option because adding functions as builtins
> >    makes it impossible to move later to extensions.
> >    Bruce doesn't like this option either.
> 
> Why would we want to move them later to extensions?

Because it's not nice to have random stuff as builtins.

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