Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:22:48AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 10:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Anyway, the patch as proposed puts the new functions in core as builtins
> > (which is what Bruce seems to be objecting to). Maybe instead of
> > proposing moving existing extensions in core, it would be better to have
> > this patch put those two new functions alone as a single new extension
> > in src/extension, and not move anything else. I don't necessarily
> > resist adding these functions as builtins, but if we do that then
> > there's no going back to having them as an extension instead, which is
> > presumably more in line with what we want in the long run.
>
> For my part, I am unclear on why we are putting *any* diagnostic tools
> in /contrib today. Either the diagnostic tools are good quality and
> necessary for a bunch of users, in which case we ship them in core, or
> they are obscure and/or untested, in which case they go in an external
> project and/or on PGXN.
>
> Yes, for tools with overhead we might want to require enabling them in
> pg.conf. But that's very different from requiring the user to install a
> separate package.

I don't care what we do, but I do think we should be consistent.
Frankly I am unclear why I am even having to make this point, as cases
where we have chosen expediency over consistency have served us badly in
the past.

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