Re: Want to add to contrib.... xmldbx

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-01-30T21:49:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Secondly, if there is a "large group of users" who want this, why
> doesn't someone do it? Any one of them could take the source, and
> produce a bundle (say a PostgresPHP Plus Pack) that has all the
> features you think should be in there. If they can demonstrate they can
> maintain it, perhaps the postgresql website can host it the same way it
> hosts the windows installer packages (they're not part of postgres
> either).

Actually that has been done, specifically do address this type of issue.
It is called Mammoth PostgreSQL. It can be found here:

http://www.mammothpostgresql.org/

Joshua D. Drake


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