Re: [PATCHES] Adding fulldisjunctions to the contrib

"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I don't see the harm in including this one for at least this release.
> If no one uses it, take it out for 8.3.

Once stuff is in contrib, it tends to stay there. The above argument
is completely disingenuous --- we'd have to have the same argument
again at the end of the 8.3 cycle, only then we'd already have expended
a development cycle's worth of maintenance work on a quite-large module.

There is quite a lot of stuff in contrib that the core committee
wouldn't accept nowadays ... it got in when there wasn't any alternative
such as pgfoundry. These days I think something has to be pretty
clearly useful to a wide variety of people before we'll accept it into
contrib, and I'm not seeing that that case has been made for
fulldisjunctions. FD may be cool, but coolness isn't a (sufficient)
criterion.

regards, tom lane