Re: [HACKERS] char types gone.

> Would be nice if stuff like that (and the money and geometrics) could be
> compiled in in the same manner that Apache is a basic web server that lets
> you pick and choose modules/features you want to build into it.
>
> I don't know how big of a performance boost it provides in the cache, but
> removing the functions associated with the char types shrank the pg_proc
> table from 906 to 842 entries or a bit over 7%.
>
> Want to shrink it further?  Of those remaining 842, _230_ are for the geometric
> types!  Throw in 25 more for the cash/money functions.  Bloat city if you
> never use these things.  Thirty percent could be moved out to contrib and
> not missed by most postgres users.
>

Yes, but if they are never referenced, the cache is empty for those
types.  Unless there is some performance change with their removal, why
remove them?  Disk space of binary?

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