| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP Patch for GROUPING SETS phase 1 |
| Date: | 2014-08-21 21:13:33 |
| Message-ID: | 9819.1408655613@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I'm inclined to think that the audience for this is far larger than the
> audience for the cube extension, which I have not once encountered in
> the field.
Perhaps so. I would really prefer not to have to get into estimating
how many people will be inconvenienced how badly. It's clear to me
that not a lot of sweat has been put into seeing if we can avoid
reserving the keyword, and I think we need to put in that effort.
We've jumped through some pretty high hoops to avoid reserving keywords in
the past, so I don't think this patch should get a free pass on the issue.
Especially considering that renaming the cube extension isn't exactly
going to be zero work: there is no infrastructure for such a thing.
A patch consisting merely of s/cube/foobar/g isn't going to cut it.
regards, tom lane
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