Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

2015-05-29 11:02 GMT+02:00 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2015-05-29 10:37 GMT+02:00 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2015-05-29 8:20 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>:
> >> >>
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> The five or six mouse clicks required to install something like Slony
> >> or PostGIS (or both at once) is difficult and unclean?
> >
> >
> > 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.
>

Dave, I didn't say so it is difficult task - I solved it relatively simply
- but my customer - long year Oracle DBA, Postgres beginner was messy and
needed help and access to EDB support. He expected and searched a web page
with download, what is much more usual.

Regards

Pavel

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