Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
Date: 2015-06-04 17:34:42
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY3VW=tdPx1AsHW1LOnztojkGxLfVXLiW5AoOPTqs=5ug@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Except, that is kind of the point. Why are we adding to it?

If you don't know the answer to that question already, then you
probably shouldn't be proposing to get rid of the thing.

I think it's because there are some things we want to include in the
core distribution without baking them irrevocably into the server.

Which, IMV, is 100% reasonable.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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