On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> I'm pretty much -1 on relocating anything that's under src/bin already.
I agree. I can't see packagers putting it anywhere except for $SOMETHING/bin in the final install, so what do we get out of dividing it up in some weird way in our tree? > So let's put the whole bunch under src/bin/ and be done with it. I'm not really convinced this is a very good idea. What do we get out of moving everything, or even anything, from contrib? It will make back-patching harder, but more importantly, it will possibly create the false impression that everything we distribute is on equal footing. Right now, we've got stuff like vacuumlo in contrib which is useful but, let's face it, also a cheap hack. If we decide that executables can no longer live in contrib, then every time somebody submits something in the future, we've got to decide whether it deserves parity with psql and pg_dump or whether we shouldn't include it at all. contrib is a nice middle-ground. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
