Re: relscan_details.h

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: relscan_details.h
Date: 2013-10-02 02:23:57
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTAMKcRv5Di7RSB6ssbcwJ3iN2TLkbTs8s5q7ZEn0p8Vg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Personally, I'm not particularly in favor of these kinds of changes.

+1. Experience has shown this kind of effort to be a tarpit. It turns
out that refactoring away compiler dependencies has this kind of
fractal complexity - the more you look at it, the less sense it makes.

I would be in favor of this if there were compelling gains in either
compile time (and like others, I have a pretty high bar for compelling
here), or if the refactoring effort remedied a clear modularity
violation. Though I think it has to happen every once in a while, I'd
suggest about every 5 years as the right interval.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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