Re: CTE inlining

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Mario Becroft <mb(at)true(dot)group>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ilya Shkuratov <motr(dot)ilya(at)ya(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Serge Rielau <serge(at)rielau(dot)com>
Subject: Re: CTE inlining
Date: 2017-05-09 22:01:01
Message-ID: 9110f786-a412-0b07-b59c-1844c3368a4f@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 05/09/2017 04:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Well, TBH that is pre-judging what (if anything) is going to be changed
> by a feature that we don't even have design consensus on, let alone a
> patch for. I don't think that's an improvement or a good service to
> our users; it's just promoting confusion. I think that until we do have
> a design and a patch, we're better off leaving the docs reading the way
> they have for the past eight years.
>
> I'm also a bit mystified by the apparent urgency to change something,
> anything, in this area when we're already past feature freeze. This
> would be a fit subject for discussion several months from now when
> v11 development opens, but right now it's just distracting us from
> stabilizing v10.
>
>

+1. We should not be in the business of documenting or declaring our
intention of having vaporware. Say we get a patch and for some reason it
gets rejected. We've had features that took two or three releases to get
accepted. This is why we've historically shied away from roadmaps. And
we've been bitten in the past by deprecating things only to undeprecate
them later.

cheers

andrew

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