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Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-17T17:50:01Z
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  1. Updates to contrib/isn ISBN tables.

  2. Add a "LIKE = typename" clause to CREATE TYPE for base types. This allows

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> At the same time, I still think we should push this out to PGXN or
> pgfoundry or something.  The fact that it's useful to some people does
> not mean that it's a good example for other people to follow, or that
> we want the core distribution to be in the process of tracking ISBN
> prefixes on behalf of PostgreSQL users everywhere.

I wouldn't object to that as long as we replaced it with some other
module that had a similar relationship to core types.  We'd never have
realized the need for CREATE TYPE's LIKE option, until it was far too
late, if we'd not had contrib/isn to show up the problem (cf
commit 3f936aacc057e4b391ab953fea2ffb689a12a8bc).

But really I think this discussion is making a mountain out of a
molehill.  If tracking ISBN prefix changes is such a time-consuming
activity, why have we not seen a steady stream of update patches from
users?  By my count there's been just one such patch since 2006
(commit 6d1af7b2180719102a907bd3e35d218b43e76ad1).

			regards, tom lane