| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely |
| Date: | 2015-06-04 18:46:25 |
| Message-ID: | 20150604184625.GK18006@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2015-06-04 20:41:46 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > 1. 15 years of the same argument (current source: pg_audit)
>
> I don't see getting rid of contrib helping with that. The only change
> will then be whether something should be in core.
>
> And there's stuff that's just very hard to develop out of core; but
> doesn't necessarily immediately belong into
> core. E.g. pg_stat_statements is relatively closely tied to things in
> core.
An even better example is pg_upgrade. It'd not have been possible to
bring it somewhere close to maturity without having it in contrib/. It
requires core cooperation, and we weren't immediately to declare it as
part of core.
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