Re: pg_amcheck option to install extension

On 4/18/21 7:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
>

OK, so let's fix it. If amcheck is going to stay in contrib then ISTM
pg_amcheck should move there. I can organize that if there's agreement.
Or else let's move amcheck as Alvaro suggests.

cheers

andrew

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