From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module |
Date: | 2007-01-25 17:46:37 |
Message-ID: | 45B8ECFD.80800@commandprompt.com |
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> You miss the point. Everybody knows that those laws are not too hard
> to circumvent if you are willing to break the law. The question is
> how hard is it for someone to distribute Postgres into one of those
> countries *without* breaking any local law. We won't be making things
> better if we make it difficult or impossible to put together a
> crypto-free PG distribution; we'll just be cutting off some potential
> users.
O.k. that is certainly true.
>
> As Peter keeps pointing out, this urge to push everything into core is
> misguided anyway.
I do not believe we need to push everything into core. I do believe
there is a lot of stuff that is not in core, that could be and possibly
should be.
> The fact that you can build useful functionality as
> extension modules is a strength of PG, not a weakness, and we should
> build on that strength instead of running away from it. If you ask me
> we should be working on these things:
I am not suggesting it is a weakness in any way. I think its great. I am
just saying there appears to be several modules that really should be in
core that aren't.
>
> * Better packaging support, eg make it easier to add/remove an extension
> module and control how pg_dump deals with it. We talked about that
> awhile back but nobody did anything with the ideas.
>
Yes that would be great.
> * Better documentation for the contrib modules; some of them are
> reasonably well doc'd now, but many are not, and in almost all cases
> it's only plain text not SGML.
>
Agreed... more to the point, if it is in contrib it needs to be
documented in Docbok and it needs to have a section in the main docs.
> * Better advertising, for instance make the contrib documentation
> available on the website (which probably requires SGML conversion
> to happen first...)
Agreed.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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