Tom Lane wrote: > Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> writes: > > But people are evidently still setting packaging policies based on how > > things were back in 7.3, even though that perhaps isn't necessary > > anymore. > > FWIW, once you get past the client versus server distinction, I think > most subpackaging decisions are based on either the idea that "only a > minority of people will want this", or a desire to limit how many > dependencies are pulled in by the main package(s). Both of those > concerns apply to various subsets of -contrib, which means it's going > to be hard to persuade packagers to fold -contrib into the -server > package altogether. Nor would you gain their approval by trying to > pre-empt the decision. > > We might get somewhere by trying to identify a small set of particularly > popular contrib modules that don't add any extra dependencies, and then > recommending to packagers that those ones get bundled into the main > server package. > > > Certainly it's not a huge amount of code; less than 2MB these days. > > -> % wc `dpkg -L postgresql-contrib-9.0` | tail -1 > > 15952 67555 1770987 total > > Well, to add some concrete facts rather than generalities to my own post, > here are the sizes of the built RPMs from my last build for Fedora: > > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 3839458 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 490788 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-contrib-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 27337677 Apr 18 10:51 > postgresql-debuginfo-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 961660 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-devel-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 7569048 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-docs-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 246506 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-libs-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 64940 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-plperl-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 65776 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-plpython-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 45941 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-pltcl-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 5302117 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-server-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 1370509 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-test-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 3644113 Apr 18 10:50 > postgresql-upgrade-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
Is that last one pg_upgrade? It seems very big. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
