Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-21T19:49:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes: >>> My personal opinion is that contrib should be removed entirely. >> >> That's not real workable for code that is tightly tied to the backend, >> such as the various GIST index extensions presently in contrib. It's >> just easier to maintain that code when it's in with the backend. > tsearch, I believe, is maintained somewhere else already, no? same with > tsearch2? No, those guys are exactly the sort of backend-dependent code I'm thinking of. Teodor just recently made a GIST API change that affected both the core backend and tsearch (as well as the other GIST modules in contrib). With separate distribution trees that would've been a lot more painful to do. I think the long-term plan for tsearch2, at least, should be full integration rather than separation ... regards, tom lane