Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Daniel Farina dan...@heroku.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming the command in question can be stuffed inside a function, the most you're gaining is a little notational convenience I can answer that

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Farina
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming the command in question can be stuffed inside a function, the most you're gaining is a little notational convenience I can answer that one (why a full-blown mechanism for a notational convenience). It has

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Either I develop them separately, with separate branches derived from the master one, or I develop them as a stack, one on top of the other. The difference is my ability to provide a patch for one of the features

Re: [HACKERS] Extensions and 9.2

2011-12-21 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: Personally, I hate patches that do more than one thing. For me, the time required to verify a patch goes as about O(n^2) in its size. That's exactly why I'm opening that discussion. The main difference between the approaches I can take is the time it