| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal |
| Date: | 2009-10-04 22:58:06 |
| Message-ID: | 20091004225806.GP17756@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* David Fetter (david(at)fetter(dot)org) wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:07:40PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > The radical proposal was the RULE system. It's been tested now,
> > > and it's pretty much failed.
> >
> > You still haven't explained what actual benefit we'd get out of
> > doing this.
>
> Removing land mines is a benefit.
Removing useful functionality without replacing it is definitely worse.
Do we have a patch which implements the necessary mechanics to replace
RULEs, even for the specific situations you list? Until then, I don't
think there's much to discuss.
Thanks,
Stephen
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