Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions
Date: 2004-04-21 18:16:14
Message-ID: 4086BA6E.70105@commandprompt.com
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Hello,

My personal opinion is that contrib should be removed entirely. Just
have a contrib.txt that says all contrib modules are at pgfoundry or
whatever.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Jan Wieck wrote:

> Taking into account that quite a few people have repeatedly stated that
> the components in contrib are considered more supported/recommended than
> similar solutions found on gborg or any other external site, I suggest
> we move the projects dbmirror and dblink to gborg. The rserv contrib
> module seems to me to be an early Perl prototype of erserver, nobody is
> working on any more. I suggest we drop that entirely.
>
> Comments/alternatives?
>
>
> Jan
>

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