Re: Closing some 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
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Msg-id 24514.1239230657@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Here is my thinking, and considering that that would basically involve a 
> forward-looking design decision right now, I would support dropping the 
> cardinality() function from 8.4 (if people agree that this is in fact the 
> design decision to make).

At this point I'd support that too.  It doesn't seem that getting
cardinality() into 8.4 is important enough to risk making a decision
that we'd regret later.  And I think it's not hard to make the case
that we might regret either of the other choices later, depending on
where we go with arrays.
        regards, tom lane


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