On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:48:16PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > But it is a valid point that we'd need to build up more extension > > API tests before we start cutting back significantly on the > > maybe-example-maybe-real extensions that we ship in contrib. We > > need to find a good middle ground. > > Nowadays we can test concurrent behavior with isolationtester, and > we can test APIs with src/test/modules. We can now easily add tests > for lots of stuff that we don't currently test, without having > modules that actually produce for-install programs or libraries. > > In any case, +1 on moving useful extensions to src/extensions/. I > just read somewhere (not this thread?) that Debian for their 9.5 > packaging is going to get rid of the postgresql-contrib package, and > instead they are going to ship all that stuff in the main package. > Seems they were prompted to do this because of our inaction in this > area ...
I suspect they may also have realized that anything not shipped in the main distribution can cause enough bureaucratic pain, as in "write a justification for the legal department for why we should install this software," to cause things simply never to get installed. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
