Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

On 8/5/15 1:47 PM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 2015-08-05 20:09, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> On 08/05/2015 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>> 1. Add the functions as a builtins.
>>>>     This is what the current patch does.  Simon seems to prefer this,
>>>>     because he wants the function to be always available in production;
>>>>     but I don't like this option because adding functions as builtins
>>>>     makes it impossible to move later to extensions.
>>>>     Bruce doesn't like this option either.
>>>
>>> Why would we want to move them later to extensions?
>>
>> Because it's not nice to have random stuff as builtins.
>>
>
> Extensions have one nice property, they provide namespacing so not
> everything has to be in pg_catalog which already has about gazilion
> functions. It's nice to have stuff you don't need for day to day
> operations separate but still available (which is why src/extensions is
> better than contrib).

They also provide a level of control over what is and isn't installed in 
a cluster. Personally, I'd prefer that most users not even be aware of 
the existence of things like pageinspect.
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