Re: Request to review feature-freeze proposed tickets

2018-11-21 Thread dinesh.jo...@yahoo.com.INVALID
Kurt, I don't believe this should be subject of "heated debate". If those tickets were sitting in patch available state prior to the freeze they *should* get in. Vinay, I can help review the tickets. Dinesh On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 2:59:18 PM PST, kurt greaves wrote: Thanks Vin

Re: Request to review feature-freeze proposed tickets

2018-11-21 Thread Joshua McKenzie
> If those tickets were sitting in patch available state prior to the freeze they *should* get in. I assume it's obvious to everyone that this should be taken on a case-by-case basis. There's at least 2 that were in that list (one of which Marcus bumped off PA) that are potentially big and hairy ch

Re: Implicit Casts for Arithmetic Operators

2018-11-21 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 5:02 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > FWIW, my meaning of arithmetic in this context extends to any features we > have already released (such as aggregates, and perhaps other built-in > functions) that operate on the same domain. We should be consistent, after > all. >

Re: Implicit Casts for Arithmetic Operators

2018-11-21 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
The goal is simply to agree on a set of well-defined principles for how we should behave. If we don’t like the implications that arise, we’ll have another vote? A democracy cannot bind itself, so I never understood this fear of a decision. A database also has a thousand toggles. If we absolu

Re: Implicit Casts for Arithmetic Operators

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Haddad
I can’t agree more. We should be able to make changes in a manner that improves the DB In the long term, rather than live with the technical debt of arbitrary decisions made by a handful of people. I also agree that putting a knob in place to let people migrate over is a reasonable decision. Jon