Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-07T01:17:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> As a packager, what I'd really want to see from a division into
>> recommended and not-so-recommended packages is that they get installed
>> into different subdirectories by "make install".

> Well, that might be good, too.  But, right now, if someone pulls up
> our documentation, or our source tree, they could easily be forgiven
> for thinking that hstore and dummy_seclabel are comparable, and they
> aren't.

Sure, but that's a documentation issue, which again is not going to be
helped by a source-tree rearrangement.

As somebody who spends a lot of time on back-patching, I'm not excited
in the least by suggestions to rearrange the source tree for marginal
cosmetic benefits, which is all that I see here.

			regards, tom lane