On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jeff Amiel <becauseimj...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Trying to follow the threads and other references - but I can't > determine where this patch ended up. > > ( > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ca+tgmobrrrxco+t6gcqrw_djw+uf9zedwf9bejnu+rb5teb...@mail.gmail.com > ) > > Well, the patch was rejected, more or less because people felt it > overlapped with pgfincore too much. I don't particularly agree, > because pgfincore can't load data into shared buffers and doesn't work > on Windows, but other people felt differently. There was talk of > polishing up pgfincore for possible inclusion in contrib, perhaps > adding this functionality along the way, but AFAIK there's been no > activity on that. > It wasn't rejected, it was returned with feedback with generally positive reviews. I think the main feedback was that it should provide a single-argument overloaded function that takes just the object name and applies reasonable defaults for the remaining arguments, for example 'main', 'buffer',NULL,NULL. I had thought that the worry about overlap with pgfincore was mostly resolved favorably, but perhaps I misread the situation. I'd like to see it revived for 9.4 if you are willing. Cheers, Jeff
