Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(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 18:31:46
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ8pGwXiXLY6y523_ea4e0ADL_RTo7tgH2Bcrbox3qhLA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh. Well, that's different. I don't particularly support that
proposal, but I'm not prepared to fight over it either.

--
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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