Re: Removing faulty hyperLogLog merge function

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing faulty hyperLogLog merge function
Date: 2016-04-26 23:54:05
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQRyOmuUPVtv2zR6uaGfFSD+D7L0rHC0mzNoY8yg2YV1g@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> You don't want to remove buggy code that is currently unused simply
>> because it might be useful to have that functionality in the future?
>
> No, I don't want to remove code that somebody thinks we should fix
> instead of removing on your say-so.

I don't think that that's an efficient use of anyone's time. If
somebody proposes a patch with functionality that needs to merge HLL
states, then they can add an implementation at that time.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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