Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib

On 8/12/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> More seriously: the current state of affairs is that the
> full-disjunction code exists as a pgfoundry project.  If it's indeed the
> second greatest thing since sliced bread, then I think we could assume
> that people will find it and use it from pgfoundry.

That goes back to assuming people not only know about pgfoundry, but
are similarly willing to search it.

> The question that's on the table is whether it needs to be in contrib right now.
> I have not seen either a technical argument or popularity argument why it
> ought to move into contrib.

In addition to knowing that Tzahi has put a *very* significant amount
of work into his research as well as this code over the past few
months, I have to agree with several items stated by "Agent M".

This is the *first* implementation of this concept in any database
system, so there's not going to be anyone jumping up and down singing
it's praises just yet.  However, when people do get a chance to play
with it, I believe we'll have a number of them saying how useful it
is.  There are several contrib modules still included in the system
that aren't that heavily used... I don't see the harm in including
this one for at least this release.  If no one uses it, take it out
for 8.3.

IMHO, this is just a really cool piece of technology that provides
functionality which can't be done any other way; why not give it a
chance?

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