Re: A Modest Upgrade Proposal

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A Modest Upgrade Proposal
Date: 2016-07-17 18:08:25
Message-ID: 42bcaeeb-80f5-1eae-5cc8-7f36f97f0485@BlueTreble.com
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On 7/13/16 2:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 07/07/2016 01:01 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> There was an unconference session on this topic at PGCon and quite a
>> number of people there stated that they found DDL to be an ease-of-use
>> feature and wanted to have it.
>
> Yeah, I haven't meet anyone yet that would like to have:
>
> select replicate_these_relations('['public']);
>
> vs:
>
> ALTER SCHEMA public ENABLE REPLICATION;
>
> (or something like that).

I generally agree, but I think the more important question is "Why?". Is
it becouse DDL looks more like a sentence? Is it because arrays are a
PITA? Is it too hard to call functions?
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