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Re: 8.0 Open Items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-21T18:26:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Okay, I don't want to force an initdb just for this either.  But if we
> >> do one for other reasons, it's toast.
> 
> > I don't see why an initdb is required: if we want to remove it, we can 
> > replace the function's implementation with elog(ERROR, "this function 
> > has been removed"), or the like. The difference between doing that much 
> > and actually removing the function's catalog entry is pretty negligible 
> > from the user's POV.
> 
> No, not at all.  A nonfunctional catalog entry gets in the way of the
> user replacing the function, should he wish to do that.

Yea, but I would call the odds of that "pretty negligible".

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