Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-21T18:16:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello,

My personal opinion is that contrib should be removed entirely. Just 
have a contrib.txt that says all contrib modules are at pgfoundry or 
whatever.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


Jan Wieck wrote:

> Taking into account that quite a few people have repeatedly stated that 
> the components in contrib are considered more supported/recommended than 
> similar solutions found on gborg or any other external site, I suggest 
> we move the projects dbmirror and dblink to gborg. The rserv contrib 
> module seems to me to be an early Perl prototype of erserver, nobody is 
> working on any more. I suggest we drop that entirely.
> 
> Comments/alternatives?
> 
> 
> Jan
>