Re: The missing pg_get_*def functions

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> It likely is, but it would really be nice to be able to do catalog
> updates like these in a better fashion than sticking some update command
> into the release notes and hoping that someone reads them and runs the
> command..

Agreed.

Another advantage of using more the extension infrastructure is that
shipping bug fixes in the C or SQL parts of them would allow a hot fix
to be shipped without restart when limited to an extension.

In-core installed-by-default extensions, anyone?

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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