Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On 05/29/2015 02:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:
>> The problem here is that these ranges are controlled by a
>> decentralized patchwork of national standards bodies, and the ranges
>> are always subject to revision. I think that it's egregious that
>> contrib/isn imagines it can track that with a static array.
>
> Well, that module has already been rewritten once (which proves that
> there's an audience out there for it). Perhaps somebody will rewrite it
> again to support a non-hardwired set of ranges. Now that we have the
> concept of an extension configuration table, that'd be one possible
> way to fix it ...

FWIW, neither of the projects I know of which uses ISBN has had any
issues with the range since the 2010 updates. While the ranges can be
updated in theory, in practice is happens glacially slowly.

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