Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices
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Msg-id 54592C5D.7020108@agliodbs.com
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In response to Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 11/04/2014 07:33 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> More generally, it seems like a grab bag of not terribly well designed
> features, and the features that do seem well designed seem like they
> ought to be more generic than just for int4 arrays.  So to me it feels
> like proof-of-concept experimentation rather than a production-grade
> thing that we could feel good about moving into core.

Yah, as a user of intarray, I think it belongs as an external extension.Heck, I think it might get more attention as an
externalextension, and
 
if it were external then folks could fork it and create versions that
don't have operator conflicts.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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