Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?
Date: 2008-07-23 16:38:47
Message-ID: 17091.1216831127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> Code outside of core, is, in reality, less reviewed, less likely to work
> well with recent PG versions, and more likely to cause problems. It's also
> less likely to be found by people, less likely to be used by people, and
> less likely to be included by distros. Not to say that everything should get
> shoved into core, of course, but there are strong arguments for both sides.

These are all true statements, of course, but ISTM they should be looked
on as problems to be solved. Pushing stuff into core instead of solving
these problems is not a scalable long-term answer.

regards, tom lane

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