On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> You know how people complain about how new contributors are treated here?
> Throwing out comments like this, that come off as belittling to other
> people's work, doesn't help. All I was suggesting was that Dan wasn't
> developing this in complete isolation from the hackers community as Robert
> had feared, as will be obvious when we get to:
I still think it's better to have discussion on the mailing list than
elsewhere. But we're doing that now, so, good.
> As far as other past discussion here that might be relevant, this patch
> includes a direct change to gram.y to support the new syntax. You've
> already suggested before that it might be time to update COPY the same way
> EXPLAIN and now VACUUM have been overhauled to provide a more flexible
> options interface:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00616.php This
> patch might be more fuel for that idea.
FWIW, Tom already committed a patch by Emmanuel and myself that did this.
...Robert
