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Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-23T00:09:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Rod Taylor wrote:

> I guess that is where we differ in opinion. pgadmin is not addon or an
> enhancement, it is a part of the core project every bit as much as the
> gnome-panel is a part of gnome. Sure, gnome-libs does all the heavy
> lifting, but without the panel most users are lost.

No it isn't ... you don't need pgadmin, or jdbc, or libpgtcl, or ... to
run a PostgreSQL server ... you need the postgresql core, and, as things
are going, libpq and that is about it ... even psql is becoming less of a
requirement as the support utilities that have been using it move towards
C vs shell wrappers ...

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