Re: Extensions User Design

On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

>> The core team isn't appropriate for this. We'd start a new
>> committee/list somewhere instead, and it would be part of the same
>> effort which produces a "recommended" list of extensions and
>> drivers for packagers.
>
> It'd still deprecate contrib/, which could maybe become examples/?

No, it would not be distributed with core at all. They could all be
packaged up together in a single distribution of recommended modules,
however.

>> This may not be necessary if simple download-unzip-and-install is
>> simple enough.
>
> I hope it'll get simple enough, yes, as simple as current PGXS
> modules from source are:
> - cvs up or wget
> - tar xzf ... && cd ...
> - make install
> - psql -f ... mydb

Then it could also be easily scripted, too.

> PGXS has it covered, and we're not yet there, but I'm thinking PGXS
> should be a pre requisite of the extension facility as far as
> extensions authors are concerned. Then packagers will make it so
> that users won't typically face those details.

+1.

Best,

David