On 05/29/2015 02:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: >> The problem here is that these ranges are controlled by a >> decentralized patchwork of national standards bodies, and the ranges >> are always subject to revision. I think that it's egregious that >> contrib/isn imagines it can track that with a static array. > > Well, that module has already been rewritten once (which proves that > there's an audience out there for it). Perhaps somebody will rewrite it > again to support a non-hardwired set of ranges. Now that we have the > concept of an extension configuration table, that'd be one possible > way to fix it ...
FWIW, neither of the projects I know of which uses ISBN has had any issues with the range since the 2010 updates. While the ranges can be updated in theory, in practice is happens glacially slowly. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
