Re: pg_amcheck option to install extension

On 2021-Apr-18, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> On 4/17/21 3:43 PM, Mark Dilger wrote:

> > I'd also like your impressions on whether we're likely to move
> > contrib/amcheck into core anytime soon. If so, is it worth adding
> > an option that we'll soon need to deprecate?
>
> I think if it stays as an extension it will stay in contrib. But it sure
> feels very odd to have a core bin program that relies on a contrib
> extension. It seems one or the other is misplaced.

I've proposed in the past that we should have a way to provide
extensions other than contrib -- specifically src/extensions/ -- and
then have those extensions installed together with the rest of core.
Then it would be perfectly legitimate to have src/bin/pg_amcheck that
depending that extension. I agree that the current situation is not
great.

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