On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 09:19:33AM -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > So, I am going to ask a back-track question and ask why we can't move > > hstore into core. > > This is exactly the opposite of what should be happening. Now, jsonb > might make it into core because of the json precedent but the entire > purpose of the extension system is stop dumping everything in the > public namespace. Stuff 'in core' becomes locked in stone, forever, > because of backwards compatibility concerns, which are IMNSHO, a > bigger set of issues than even pg_upgrade related issues. Have we > gone through all the new hstore functions and made sure they don't > break existing applications? Putting things in core welds your only > escape hatch shut. > > *All* non-sql standard types ought to be in extensions in an ideal world.
I have seen your opinion on this but there have been enough counter-arguments that I am not ready to head in that direction. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
