Re: cvs retrieval of earthdistance

Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> I am seeing something odd with retrieving contrib/earthdistance using
> anonymous csv. If I do use the checkout command in the instructions
> (cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs(at)anoncvs(dot)postgresql(dot)org:/projects/cvsroot co -P
> pgsql) I get the earthdistance directory and its contents. But if I remove
> the directory and use a cvs update command I don't get a refreshed copy.
> Other contrib directories don't seem to work this way. Is this a mistake
> on my end or is there some problem with how earthdistance is defined
> in CVS?

earthdistance is busted (IMHO) because it was moved into a different
CVS module from the main backend. The above behavior probably qualifies
as a CVS bug, but we could easily avoid it by undoing the module split.

regards, tom lane