| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely |
| Date: | 2015-05-29 19:59:52 |
| Message-ID: | 5568C538.3070302@commandprompt.com |
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On 05/29/2015 12:30 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Contrib made sense years ago. It does not any longer. Let's put the
> old horse down and raise a new herd of ponies on a new pasture.
>
>
> Still there is strong sense - it is a referential implementation of our
> extension API. We need it to find regressions, changes. I don't believe
No, then we need a proper test suite for the extension API.
> so external extensions can do it. Only PostGIS is massively accepted and
> developed by more than few people. Personally I am thinking so removing
> contrib is not good idea.
Is there an extension/contrib module in the last decade that more than
once has shown to help us with that?
Sincerely,
JD
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