On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:58:00AM -0700, 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? Do you anticipate
> not needing them in the future? If we don't need them in the future,
> why would they continue to exist at all?
>
> I'm really not getting this. ----------------------------
This is why I suggested putting the new SQL function where it belongs
for consistency and then open a separate thread to discuss the future of
where we want diagnostic functions to be. It is too complicated to talk
about both issues in the same thread.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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