On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera >> <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> > I don't think that necessarily means it must continue to be in contrib. >> > Quite the contrary, I think it is a tool critical enough that it should >> > not be relegated to be a second-class citizen as it is now (let's face >> > it, being in contrib *is* second-class citizenship). >> >> I have resisted that principle for years and will continue to do so. >> It is entirely reasonable for some DBAs to want certain functionality >> (debugging tools, crypto) to not be installed on their machines. >> Folding everything into core is not a good policy, IMHO. > > I don't understand. I'm just proposing that the source code for the > extension to live in src/extensions/, and have the shared library > installed by toplevel make install; I'm not suggesting that the > extension is installed automatically. For that, you still need a > superuser to run CREATE EXTENSION.
Oh. Well, that's different. I don't particularly support that proposal, but I'm not prepared to fight over it either. -- 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
