Re: [HACKERS] pg_background contrib module proposal

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/17 12:47 PM, Andrey Borodin wrote:
>> 4. There is some controversy on where implemented feature shall be: in separate extension (as in this patch), in
db_link,in some PL API, in FDW or somewhere else. I think that new extension is an appropriate place for the feature.
ButI’m not certain. 
>
> I suppose we should decide first whether we want pg_background as a
> separate extension or rather pursue extending dblink as proposed elsewhere.
>
> I don't know if pg_background allows any use case that dblink can't
> handle (yet).

For the record, I have no big problem with extending dblink to allow
this instead of adding pg_background.  But I think we should try to
get one or the other done in time for this release.

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