Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> First, I *really* wish we'd call it something else. Contrib conveys
> "unsupported" to people.
And that's exactly what it is supposed to mean. We say, these modules
do not necessarily meet our standards with regard to code quality,
portability, user interfaces, internationalization, documentation, etc.
There is certainly a lot of good software in contrib and one could in
individual cases consider moving them out of there, but contrib is what
it is.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/