On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'm not particularly in favor of these kinds of changes.
+1. Experience has shown this kind of effort to be a tarpit. It turns
out that refactoring away compiler dependencies has this kind of
fractal complexity - the more you look at it, the less sense it makes.
I would be in favor of this if there were compelling gains in either
compile time (and like others, I have a pretty high bar for compelling
here), or if the refactoring effort remedied a clear modularity
violation. Though I think it has to happen every once in a while, I'd
suggest about every 5 years as the right interval.
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Peter Geoghegan