On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 19:38 David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
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?
A well considered proposal might be interesting. A “call to arms” asking someone to create same likely wouldn’t be.