Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Lane
Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 00:38, Tom Lane wrote: >> For an embedded system I'd think you'd want to strip out the support >> code for the unwanted types (ie, the utils/adt/ file(s)), not only the >> catalog entries. > But if the types themselves were install

Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 00:38, Tom Lane wrote: > Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:38, Tom Lane wrote: > >> It's still "extensible", it's just not so easily "contractible"... > >> > >> I'm not sure that this matters, as I've never heard of anyone actually > >> t

Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Lane
Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:38, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's still "extensible", it's just not so easily "contractible"... >> >> I'm not sure that this matters, as I've never heard of anyone actually >> troubling to remove unused datatypes etc. > It could beco

Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:38, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content > > pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible > > nature of the system. > > It's still "extensib

Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content > pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible > nature of the system. It's still "extensible", it's just not so easily "contractible"... I'm not s

Re: [HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content > pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible > nature of the system. > > Would it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in > objects (say, inet

[HACKERS] Everything is now "required by the database system"

2002-08-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible nature of the system. Would it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in objects (say, inet type, numeric type, associated funct