Re: WIP -- renaming implicit sequences

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <munro@ip9.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-01-20T01:02:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> >> I think we should remove this from the TODO list, or at least document
>> >> that there are a number of reasons why it might be a deeper hole than
>> >> it appears to be at first glance.
>> >
>> > Maybe not remove it, but instead add a link to this discussion.
>>
>> I don't see what that accomplishes, unless someone's arguing that we
>> really do want this behavior...?
>
> Well, it documents what happened when we tried to do it.  Sort of like
> "features we do not want".  But then, maybe it's just TODO bloat.

I share your urge to memorialize the conversation somewhere, but I
fear it will just cause future people to spend time thinking about it
that isn't really warranted.  I guess we could move it to the features
we do not want section, but that's mostly bigger picture stuff.

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Robert Haas
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