Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
Date: 2015-05-29 08:41:42
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxn=JJBdpydO1CiGsTfmyKKQbOUKk9tBriQyuV_zhb=Yw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> Le 29 mai 2015 8:10 AM, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am not sure if PGXN can substitute contrib - mainly due deployment - It
>>> doesn't helps with MS Windows. Installing necessary software for compilation
>>> there is terrible.
>>>
>>
>> I agree it's hard to compile an extension on Windows, but that's already
>> what we have. And I'm sure EDB will put all interesting contrib modules in
>> their windows installer to help users. They already go way further than any
>> Linux packages.
>
> The only extra extension we ship is pl/debugger.

To clarify - that's the only one we ship in the PostgreSQL installer.
There are many more that we ship (both from EDB and other sources),
but users use StackBuilder to choose, download and install them.

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