Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> 2015-05-29 10:37 GMT+02:00 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
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>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 2015-05-29 8:20 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>:
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>> >> Le 29 mai 2015 8:10 AM, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> a
>> >> écrit
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>> >> > Hi
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>> >> > 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.
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>> >> I agree it's hard to compile an extension on Windows, but that's
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>> >> 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.
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>> > I afraid so dependency on EDB in this case is wrong - I have respect to
>> > EDB
>> > due work, but installation other extension from EDB stack is difficult,
>> > unclean, and nothing what I would to use as new base.
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>> The five or six mouse clicks required to install something like Slony
>> or PostGIS (or both at once) is difficult and unclean?
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> I had a problem with downloading isolated packages with stackbuilder - but
> it was specific, because comp where some packages was installed was not
> access to internet.

Run SB on a machine that is connected and:

- Select "remote server" on the first step. This will disable any
filtering based on database server version, which is normally applied
if you're installing to the local machine (it will only offer packages
compatible with the database servers you have installed). This is not
required if you have the appropriate DB server installed on the
internet connected machine as well.

- Make a note of the Download Directory on step 3

- Check "Skip installation" on step 4.

Copy the downloaded installed from the Download Directory to your
server machine, and run them.

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