On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:58:00AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 08/05/2015 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > 1. Add the functions as a builtins. > > This is what the current patch does. Simon seems to prefer this, > > because he wants the function to be always available in production; > > but I don't like this option because adding functions as builtins > > makes it impossible to move later to extensions. > > Bruce doesn't like this option either. > > Why would we want to move them later to extensions? Do you anticipate > not needing them in the future? If we don't need them in the future, > why would they continue to exist at all? > > I'm really not getting this. ----------------------------
This is why I suggested putting the new SQL function where it belongs for consistency and then open a separate thread to discuss the future of where we want diagnostic functions to be. It is too complicated to talk about both issues in the same thread. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
