Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation
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Msg-id CAEYLb_W1SAT60Y6FoO3YUzfj44+Po-pejuCEBLMpv9G-+ejpig@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 17 November 2011 02:32, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> (I'm a bit concerned about the angle that the code has some smarts
>> currently about where to put hyphens in output.  If we rip that out
>> it could definitely break application code, whereas dropping a check
>> shouldn't.)
>
> Right.  Do we need to dump the hyphen logic?

Only if you think that it's better to have something that covers many
cases but is basically broke. Perhaps it's different for code that is
already committed, but in the case of new submissions it tends to be
better to have something that is limited in a well-understood way
rather than less limited in a way that is unpredictable or difficult
to reason about.

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