Re: Adminpack removal

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024, 07:34 Philippe BEAUDOIN, <phb(dot)emaj(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just tested PG17 beta1 with the E-Maj solution I maintain. The
> only issue I found is the removal of the adminpack contrib.
>
> In the emaj extension, which is the heart of the solution, and which is
> written in plpgsql, the code just uses the pg_file_unlink() function to
> automatically remove files produced by COPY TO statements when no rows
> have been written. In some specific use cases, it avoids the user to get
> a few interesting files among numerous empty files in a directory. I
> have found a workaround. That's a little bit ugly, but it works. So this
> is not blocking for me.
>
> FYI, the project's repo is on github (https://github.com/dalibo/emaj)
> which was supposed to be scanned to detect potential adminpack usages.

The extension at first glance doesn't currently seem to depend on
adminpack: it is not included in the control file as dependency, and
has not been included as a dependency since the creation of that file.

Where else would you expect us to search for dependencies?

Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent