From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199803240327.WAA04091@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] char types gone.
To: darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:27:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <9803232314.AA27808@ceodev> from "Darren King" at Mar 23,
	98 06:14:58 pm
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> Would be nice if stuff like that (and the money and geometrics) could be
> compiled in in the same manner that Apache is a basic web server that lets
> you pick and choose modules/features you want to build into it.
> 
> I don't know how big of a performance boost it provides in the cache, but
> removing the functions associated with the char types shrank the pg_proc
> table from 906 to 842 entries or a bit over 7%.
> 
> Want to shrink it further?  Of those remaining 842, _230_ are for the geometric
> types!  Throw in 25 more for the cash/money functions.  Bloat city if you
> never use these things.  Thirty percent could be moved out to contrib and
> not missed by most postgres users.
> 

Yes, but if they are never referenced, the cache is empty for those
types.  Unless there is some performance change with their removal, why
remove them?  Disk space of binary?

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