X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AE5D1B470 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:50:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34657-10 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:50:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from megazone.bigpanda.com (megazone.bigpanda.com [64.147.171.210]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFDCD1B450 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:50:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: by megazone.bigpanda.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D6B3235751; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megazone.bigpanda.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F4D35749; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:50:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephan Szabo To: Shachar Shemesh Cc: Tom Lane , Robert Treat , Dennis Bjorklund , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Do we prefer software that works or software that In-Reply-To: <20040424081526.L47385@megazone.bigpanda.com> Message-ID: <20040424224828.A64889@megazone.bigpanda.com> References: <1082735128.22969.1106.camel@camel> <20040423094236.J17459@megazone.bigpanda.com> <40897131.6020902@shemesh.biz> <20040423130701.K21905@megazone.bigpanda.com> <20040423132913.X22334@megazone.bigpanda.com> <7305.1082779876@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4089F9ED.6000108@shemesh.biz> <20040423235639.G35081@megazone.bigpanda.com> <408A2905.6030401@shemesh.biz> <20040424081526.L47385@megazone.bigpanda.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/812 X-Sequence-Number: 52734 On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Stephan Szabo wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > Things like "don't worry about the catalog > > >entries" don't fly when your standard functions are defined and > > >looked up there. > > > > > > > > Answer above. > > Okay, under that world view (as opposed to on the fly), I think the only > issues come in from shared catalogs, most importantly user names. This is In fact the above is incomplete. You also need to be able to do the right thing when creating a database with a different setting than its template database. I'm not really sure how to define "right thing" however if things have been added to the template db.