> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:25 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
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> I assume you're aware, but it's probably not going to be applied for 12...
Sure, the patch was mostly to express more clearly what I was thinking about :)
> I think most of the read-only stuff just needs to be non-optional, and most
> of the DML stuff needs to be optional.
> On the executor side it'd probably be good to make the sample scan optional
> too, but then we also need to check for that during parse-analysis. In
> contast to bitmap scans there's no alternative way to execute them.
Yeah, makes sense.
> bulk insert already is optional...
Oh, haven't noticed.