From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution? |
Date: | 2008-07-22 21:44:58 |
Message-ID: | 1216763098.6971.201.camel@jd-laptop |
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On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom, Simon, etc.:
> > Of the several things which "PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL" which we
> > covered at pgCon was that the requirement to hunt hither and yon for
> > popular add-ins is one of the primary reasons for developers not using
> > PostgreSQL.
>
> Agreed, but I think the best response to that is something CPAN-like
> for people to easily get hold of recognized extensions, and next best
> (or also) a "kitchen sink" installer package that agglomerates the core
> and selected outside projects. There aren't any successful extensible
> projects that ignore their own extensibility and put everything
> interesting into the core project.
It seems to me a better solution is to have appropriate repositories for
distributions that have them than some cpan style thing that is going to
break package dependencies.
apt-get install postgresql-plproxy
portinstall (I think that is the command) postgresql-plproxy
etc...
makes more sense.
Joshua D. Drake
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