| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: extensible enums |
| Date: | 2010-11-12 19:20:22 |
| Message-ID: | 14886.1289589622@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Well, you can rename an item today if you don't mind doing a direct
>> UPDATE on pg_enum. I think that's probably sufficient if the demand
>> only amounts to one or two requests a year. I'd say leave it off the
>> TODO list till we see if there's more demand than that.
> I'd say put it on and mark it with an [E]. We could use some more
> [E]asy items for that list.
We don't need to add marginally-useful features just because they're
easy. If it doesn't have a real use-case, the incremental maintenance
cost of more code is a good reason to reject it.
regards, tom lane
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