On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I don't mind rebasing the patch and tweaking the API if there's real support for including this in contrib, but my recollection of the previous discussions is less positive than yours. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
