Re: Adminpack removal

From: Philippe BEAUDOIN <phb(dot)emaj(at)free(dot)fr>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adminpack removal
Date: 2024-07-08 09:13:01
Message-ID: e8774c84-ffa1-4a35-a7c8-a4fe96cf1b32@free.fr
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Le 01/07/2024 à 10:07, Daniel Gustafsson a écrit :
>> On 28 Jun 2024, at 09:06, Philippe BEAUDOIN <phb(dot)emaj(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>> So just looking in public repo covers probably less than 1% of the code. However, this may give a first idea, especialy if a feature use is already detected.
> Searching for anything on Github is essentially a dead end since it reports so
> many duplicates in forks etc. That being said, I did a lot of searching and
> browsing to find users [0], but came up empty (apart from forks which already
> maintain their own copy). A more targeted search is the Debian Code search
> which at the time of removal (and well before then) showed zero occurrences of
> adminpack functions in any packaged software, and no extensions which had
> adminpack as a dependency. While not an exhaustive search by any means, it
> does provide a good hint.
>
> Since you list no other extensions using adminpack to support keeping it, I
> assume you also didn't find any when searching?
I just said that there are much much more code in private repos (so not
analyzable) than in the public ones.
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson
>
> [0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/B07CC211-DE35-4AC5-BD4E-0C6466700B06%40yesql.se

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