| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: support for ltree |
| Date: | 2015-06-12 13:33:37 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwZuaEF2wRMzt002X6HE5SsAfZaL6D3ZoQdjMk55jJfGxg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Friday, June 12, 2015, Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> The reason I am asking is that, although ltree seems to have been a
> contributed module since at least 8.3, how can one know if it will always
> be part of subsequent versions of Postgres?
>
Whether contrib, core, or an external extension you like will always have
ltree available to you.
It is also open source so you could update and compile it yourself in a
worse case scenario.
The difference between core and contrib is the subject of many
discussions but anything there now is almost guaranteed to be in one or the
other indefinitely.
David J.
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