Re: contrib/snapshot - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: contrib/snapshot
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Msg-id B57B412C-E307-4D37-9B7F-9CBE70D1BDF1@nasby.net
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In response to Re: contrib/snapshot  (Joel Jacobson <joel@gluefinance.com>)
Responses Re: contrib/snapshot  (Joel Jacobson <joel@gluefinance.com>)
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On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> 2010/12/31 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
> Please call it something other than "snapshot". There's already about 3
> tools called something similar and a couple of different meanings of the
> term in the world of Postgres.
>
>
> Thanks, good point.
> Renamed to fsnapshot.

Is it actually limited to functions? ISTM this concept would be valuable for anything that's not in pg_class (in other
words,anything that doesn't have user data in it). 

Also, I'm not sure why this needs to be in contrib vs pgFoundry.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   jim@nasby.net
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