On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 03:56:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * David Fetter (david@fetter.org) wrote:
> > I'd like to $Subject, on by default, with a switch to turn it off for
> > those really at the outer edges of performance. Some reasons include:
>
> Sure, half of contrib should really be in core (amcheck, file_fdw,
> postgres_fdw, maybe dblink, pageinspect, pg_buffercache,
> pg_freespacemap, pgstattuple, pg_visibility, sslinfo, maybe pgtrgm..)
Agreed.
> but we simply haven't got great facilities for either migrating those
> things into core (particularly during an upgrade..)
So a process that makes transitioning from extension to core in a(n at
least largely) mechanical way sounds like a Useful Thing™.
Would that be worth a separate thread once this CF is over?
Best,
David.
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