Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
Date: 2015-05-29 01:50:35
Message-ID: 5567C5EB.3070703@gmx.net
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On 5/28/15 3:35 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> What we would need for this is an 'extensions' directory, or similar,
> and a clear definition of what the requirements are around getting into
> it are. With that, we could decide for each module currently in contrib
> if it should go into the 'extensions' directory. I'm not sure that we
> would necessairly have to remove the contrib module or any modules which
> are deemed to not be appropriate for the 'extensions' directory.

This seems reasonable to me. It's in line with the recent move from
contrib to bin. It'll just be quite a bit bigger of an undertaking.
(50 threads to discuss the merits of each module separately?) Maybe
start by picking the top 5 and sort those out.

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