Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices

On 11/02/2014 11:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 11/02/2014 10:01 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>>> Not knowing how difficult it could be maybe a fair compromise is to
>>> move MONEY datatype to a contrib. And documenting its limitations.
>> That's pretty much dead in the water, I think. Builtin types and
>> functions have Oid values in different ranges from non-builtin types
>> such as those in contrib. It's one reason we have no chance of bringing
>> hstore into core as people have previously asked for. And for the same
>> reason I think moving a core type out to contrib won't work.
> Well, the OID compatibility issue could be dodged by saying that we can't
> do a pg_upgrade (in-place upgrade) of a database containing MONEY
> columns. In fact, we might be able to just reject databases containing
> MONEY[] (array) columns, which seems like it might be only a minor hazard.
> Either way, requiring a dump/reload for upgrade is surely a better answer
> for users of the type than just summarily screwing them.

Well, OK, yes, if we're prepared to abandon pg_upgrade-ability.

>
>> In any
>> case, contrib shouldn't be a rubbish heap of old deprecated features.
> There's a fair amount of contrib that was never anything else, so I don't
> agree with that reasoning too much.
>
>

Maybe my memory is failing. What in contrib is stuff that used to be in
core?

cheers

andrew