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Re: Official adoption of PGXN

Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@bluetreble.com>

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From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@berkus.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
Date: 2017-02-14T20:35:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2/14/17 2:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> One part of this would need to be having a designated committee of the
> Postgres community pick a set of "blessed" extensions for packagers to
> package.  Right now, contrib serves that purpose (badly).  One of the
> reasons we haven't dealt with the extension distribution problem is that
> nobody wanted to take on the issue of picking a list of blessed extensions.

That was my idea behind "all other official extensions live at <insert 
git URL here> / <list of URLs on PGXN.org>".

Adding some kind of reputation system to PGXN would probably be even 
more useful, but I certainly don't think that's mandatory for having 
officially blessed "core extensions".
-- 
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
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Commits

  1. Remove contrib/tsearch2.

  2. Create stub functions to support pg_upgrade of old contrib/tsearch2.

  3. Add backwards-compatible declarations of some core GIN support functions.

  4. Fix bug with multiple evaluation of tsearch2 compatibility trigger, trigger