Markus Wanner wrote: > Hi, > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > So, ideally, if we do a plug-in system, I think we need some way to have > > these plugins be very easily installed, perhaps by choosing object files > > pre-compile by the build farm for each operating system. > > IIRC the main problem isn't compilation and packaging of plugins. On > your Ubuntu system, for example, you can easily install > 'postgresql-contrib-8.x' and get most of the contrib modules as *.so > libraries. You'll even find the install_*.sql and uninstall_*.sql > scripts in '/usr/share/postgresql/8.x/contrib'. > > The main problem I see is ease of installation and backup/restore > capability of these modules. Installing the tsearch2 module with: > > psql $YOURDB < /usr/share/postgresql/8.x/contrib/tsearch2.sql > > ..is already quite easy to do. But beware of the trouble when trying to > back up and restore that database later on!
Well, dump/restore is part of the problem for /contrib but we need something that handles pgfoundry stuff too, which I doubt is ever going to be covered sufficiently by any OS-specific solutions. The bottom line is that for software to be successful we need a critical mass, and as long as we are doing OS-specific plugins we aren't going to reach that critical mass because the OS-specific aspect splits up demand. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
