Re: [HACKERS] char types gone.

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Would be nice if stuff like that (and the money and geometrics) could be
> > compiled in in the same manner that Apache is a basic web server that lets
> > you pick and choose modules/features you want to build into it.
> >
> > I don't know how big of a performance boost it provides in the cache, but
> > removing the functions associated with the char types shrank the pg_proc
> > table from 906 to 842 entries or a bit over 7%.
> >
> > Want to shrink it further?  Of those remaining 842, _230_ are for the geometric
> > types!  Throw in 25 more for the cash/money functions.  Bloat city if you
> > never use these things.  Thirty percent could be moved out to contrib and
> > not missed by most postgres users.
> >
>
> Yes, but if they are never referenced, the cache is empty for those
> types.  Unless there is some performance change with their removal, why
> remove them?  Disk space of binary?

    I have to agree here...unless a noticeable performance improvement
can be demonstrated, I really don't like a trend that moves towards
removing core features that make us unique, just cause it makes a table
just a little smaller...*shrug*

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org