Re: status/timeline of pglogical?

On 05/11/2016 07:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm wondering whether or not we should be promoting pglogical with the
>> release as an external extension.
>
> We have a long standing practice of not promoting external
> tools/utilities/add-ons in docs or with releases - as you know we went
> out of our way to remove such references from the docs years ago.
>
> This becomes especially problematic when such external
> tools/utilities/add-ons have been developed by one particular company,
> as Robert pointed out here
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZVBmTnUT419mS3pV9hESJh78gibD_2tviaoGMWvOTwtg@mail.gmail.com
>
> I strongly oppose recommending any non-core 'stuff' in the docs or
> press releases/announcements (including pgAdmin 4).
>

Agreed, if for no other reason that including them makes the project
responsible for them.

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Adrian Klaver
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