Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
Date: 2015-09-03 18:26:23
Message-ID: 20150903182623.GE2912@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> > I don't think that necessarily means it must continue to be in contrib.
> > Quite the contrary, I think it is a tool critical enough that it should
> > not be relegated to be a second-class citizen as it is now (let's face
> > it, being in contrib *is* second-class citizenship).
>
> I have resisted that principle for years and will continue to do so.
> It is entirely reasonable for some DBAs to want certain functionality
> (debugging tools, crypto) to not be installed on their machines.
> Folding everything into core is not a good policy, IMHO.

I don't understand. I'm just proposing that the source code for the
extension to live in src/extensions/, and have the shared library
installed by toplevel make install; I'm not suggesting that the
extension is installed automatically. For that, you still need a
superuser to run CREATE EXTENSION.

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