I almost agree, but I think things that are being actively developed to
eventually move into the backend, like autovacuum or slony-I should be in
contrib. Things that aren't destined for backend integration should be
removed though, like pgbench or dblink or whatnot.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My personal opinion is that contrib should be removed entirely. Just
> have a contrib.txt that says all contrib modules are at pgfoundry or
> whatever.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > Taking into account that quite a few people have repeatedly stated that
> > the components in contrib are considered more supported/recommended than
> > similar solutions found on gborg or any other external site, I suggest
> > we move the projects dbmirror and dblink to gborg. The rserv contrib
> > module seems to me to be an early Perl prototype of erserver, nobody is
> > working on any more. I suggest we drop that entirely.
> >
> > Comments/alternatives?
> >
> >
> > Jan
> >
>
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