Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

* David Fetter (david@fetter.org) wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:07:40PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > The radical proposal was the RULE system.  It's been tested now,
> > > and it's pretty much failed.
> >
> > You still haven't explained what actual benefit we'd get out of
> > doing this.
>
> Removing land mines is a benefit.

Removing useful functionality without replacing it is definitely worse.

Do we have a patch which implements the necessary mechanics to replace
RULEs, even for the specific situations you list?  Until then, I don't
think there's much to discuss.
Thanks,
    Stephen