On 1/3/20 2:11 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > and moving things to another schema does not help with that. It does > potentially help with the namespace pollution issue, but how much of > an issue is that anyway? Unless you've set up an unusual search_path > configuration, your own schemas probably precede pg_catalog in your > search path, besides which it seems unlikely that many people have a > gcd() function that does anything other than take the greatest common > divisor.
As seen in this thread though, there can be edge cases of "take the greatest common divisor" that might not be identically treated in a thoroughly-reviewed addition to core as in someone's hastily-rolled local version. Regards, -Chap