Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?
Date: 2011-05-09 20:21:30
Message-ID: 3818.1304972490@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun may 09 14:31:33 -0400 2011:
>> I'm happy enough with that set of guidelines: namely, that we'd use
>> src/extension only for things that don't require additional
>> dependencies, and not for things that build standalone executables.
>> If we're going to move things around, I think we should take the
>> trouble to categorize them along the way, and your idea of inserting
>> one more subdirectory under src/extension for grouping seems fine to
>> me.

> For executables we already have src/bin. Do we really need a separate
> place for, say, pg_standby or pg_upgrade?

Putting them in there implies we think they are of core-code quality.
I'm definitely *not* ready to grant that status to pg_upgrade, for
instance.

regards, tom lane

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