Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Daniel Farina wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Robert Haas wrote:> >> Assuming the command in >> question can be stuffed inside a function, the most you're gaining is >> a little notational convenience > > I can answer that one (why a full-blown mechanism

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Farina
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Robert Haas wrote:> > Assuming the command in > question can be stuffed inside a function, the most you're gaining is > a little notational convenience I can answer that one (why a full-blown mechanism for a notational convenience). It has occurred to me to use t

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-21 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Robert Haas writes: > Personally, I hate patches that do more than one thing. For me, the > time required to verify a patch goes as about O(n^2) in its size. That's exactly why I'm opening that discussion. The main difference between the approaches I can take is the time it takes to export each

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Either I develop them separately, with separate branches derived from > the master one, or I develop them as a stack, one on top of the other. > The difference is my ability to provide a patch for one of the features > that can be applied