Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement
Date: 2005-05-02 18:54:42
Message-ID: 200505021854.j42IsgP26952@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >>> I posted this compromise and no one replied so I thought everyone was OK
> >>> with it. It gets it into CVS, but has a separate compile stage to deal
> >>> with the recursive dependency problem.
> >>
> >> Then what is the point of having it in CVS? Other then to make are tar
> >> ball bigger?
> >
> > So it can be maintained with other PL languages as the internal API
> > changes. This is the same reason ecpg is in our CVS because it is tied
> > to the grammar.
>
> Since when? I thought you didn't need the PostgreSQL sources in order to
> compile pl/PHP, only the installed headers/libraries ... Joshua, has
> something changed, or did I mis-understand that requirement?

The issue is that we have had to wack around the existing PL languages
for almost every release to make them work with server changes, and
being outside our CVS, plPHP isn't getting that whacking.

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