Re: Removing faulty hyperLogLog merge function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Removing faulty hyperLogLog merge function
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Msg-id CA+Tgmob=sHoruxibqFT0mdGYVcnz3qZvCgS4b7kTAZmBpUit_A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Removing faulty hyperLogLog merge function  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You don't want to remove buggy code that is currently unused simply
>>> because it might be useful to have that functionality in the future?
>>
>> No, I don't want to remove code that somebody thinks we should fix
>> instead of removing on your say-so.
>
> I don't think that that's an efficient use of anyone's time. If
> somebody proposes a patch with functionality that needs to merge HLL
> states, then they can add an implementation at that time.

Peter, if there is consensus on this patch, I will commit it.  If
there isn't, I won't.  If you don't like that, sorry.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



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