| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping |
| Date: | 2000-01-23 20:41:03 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0001231638570.79710-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> You know why ANALYZE is part of VACUUM? Because at the time I didn't
> know how to scan a table. Vacuum already did that, so I piggybacked on
> that code.
Big difference ... what you did didn't run the risk of breaking existing
applications ... *maybe* there is no choice in this, *maybe* the way that
Peter implemented is the only way it *could* be implemented ... all I'm
arguing is that there should have been a discussion *before* it was
implemented to hammer that point out ...
... just like we've done for the past 4 years now ...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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