Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

On 08/05/2015 10:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Anyway, the patch as proposed puts the new functions in core as builtins
> (which is what Bruce seems to be objecting to).  Maybe instead of
> proposing moving existing extensions in core, it would be better to have
> this patch put those two new functions alone as a single new extension
> in src/extension, and not move anything else.  I don't necessarily
> resist adding these functions as builtins, but if we do that then
> there's no going back to having them as an extension instead, which is
> presumably more in line with what we want in the long run.

For my part, I am unclear on why we are putting *any* diagnostic tools
in /contrib today.  Either the diagnostic tools are good quality and
necessary for a bunch of users, in which case we ship them in core, or
they are obscure and/or untested, in which case they go in an external
project and/or on PGXN.

Yes, for tools with overhead we might want to require enabling them in
pg.conf.  But that's very different from requiring the user to install a
separate package.

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