On 5/13/15 7:46 PM, Kouhei Kaigai wrote:
>>> * ctidscan as an example of custom-scan
>>> > >
>>> > >This basically hasn't gotten any attention, which may mean nobody cares
>>> > >enough to justify putting it in the tree. We need to either push it to
>>> > >next CF or reject altogether.
>> >
>> >Agreed. I was fine with never committing this. I don't think we have
>> >a requirement that every hook or bit of functionality we expose at the
>> >C level must have an example in core. But other people (you? Simon?)
>> >seemed to want a demonstration in the core repository. If that's
>> >still a priority, I am willing to work on it more for 9.6, but there
>> >is not time now.
>> >
> If no other people required it again, I don't think this module should
> be kept in core and also I'm not favor to push ctidscan to v9.6 development
> cycle. It intends to demonstrate custom-scan interface, however, it is
> not certain an example always needs to be in-core.
FWIW, having TIDGreaterOperator would be very useful for anyone trying
to un-bloat a table, so it'd be nice if this was at least available as a
PGXN extension.
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