Re: extend pgbench expressions with functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: extend pgbench expressions with functions
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Msg-id 20160329013614.GH10850@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: extend pgbench expressions with functions  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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* Michael Paquier (michael.paquier@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> >> v40 is yet another rebase.
> >
> > Thanks.  Committed after removing an unnecessary parameter from the
> > coerceToXXX() functions.
> >
> > I guess the question here is whether we want the part-c patch, which
> > removes the historical \setrandom syntax.  That's technically no
> > longer needed since we now can use random() as a function directly
> > inside \set commands, but we might want it anyway for backward
> > compatibility.
> >
> > Anybody have an opinion on that?
>
> +1 for nuking it. That's not worth the trouble maintaining it.

If we don't nuke it, it'll never die.

See also: pg_shadow

Thanks!

Stephen

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