| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecating RULES |
| Date: | 2012-10-12 19:18:41 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoanoX4toVOO9pwFrBMK7h6CAFN27oVb5naPSvZhf6XVNA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12 October 2012 20:01, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> We know that rules are a bad fit for
>> almost everything, *but we can't assume that our users all know that
>> when it isn't even documented*.
>
> I agree that we should document that rules are something that should
> almost certainly be avoided. Up until recently, the advice surrounding
> commit_delay in the docs said something practically indistinguishable
> from "you don't want to use this". Why not do the same for rules?
I completely agree.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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