| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Eugen Konkov <kes-kes(at)yandex(dot)ru>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposition for autoname columns |
| Date: | 2020-11-12 19:34:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20201112193452.GA4506@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:30:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Nov-12, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > On the whole, I'm on the side of the people who don't want to change this.
> > The implementation cost seems likely to greatly outweigh the value, plus
> > it feels more like a wart than a feature.
>
> I think if Eugen wants to spend some time with it and see how it could
> be implemented, then sent a patch for consideration, then we could make
> a better informed decision. My own opinion is that it's not worth the
> trouble, but I'd rather us not stand in his way if he wants to try
> (With disclaimer that we might end up not liking the patch, of course).
I think he would be better outlining how he wants it to behave before
even working on a patch; from our TODO list:
Desirability -> Design -> Implement -> Test -> Review -> Commit
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