Re: COPY enhancements

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Emmanuel Cecchet wrote:
>>     
>>> If you prefer to postpone the auto-partitioning to the next commit 
>>> fest, I can strip it from the current patch and re-submit it for the 
>>> next fest (but it's just 2 isolated methods really easy to review).
>>>       
>
>   
>> I certainly think this should be separated out. In general it is not a 
>> good idea to roll distinct features together. It complicates both the 
>> reviewing process and the discussion.
>>     
>
> I think though that Greg was suggesting that we need some more thought
> about the overall road map.  Agglomerating "independent" features onto
> COPY one at a time is going to lead to a mess, unless they fit into an
> overall design plan.
>
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>   

I don't disagree with that. But even if we get a roadmap of some set of 
features we want to implement, rolling them all together isn't a good 
way to go.

cheers

andrew