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

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
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Msg-id 55C24EA8.2050901@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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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.

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Josh Berkus
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