On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:57, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2007 02:09, Simon Riggs wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:14 -0300, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: > >>> Simon Riggs wrote: > >>>> I would prefer that we backported pg_standby into 8.2 contrib, so the > >>>> solution is where people need it to be. If not... > >>> > >>> Don't know about the policy to put things in already-released-version > >>> but if it's not the case, we could at least put the code somewhere in > >>> the ftp.postgresql.org. IMHO pgfoundry project will confuse people. > >> > >> Both: ftp and pgfoundry. > > > > Putting it on pgfoundry would automatically put it in the ftp tree > > (ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/projects/pgFoundry). If it was to go on > > pgfoundry (which I'd recommend) I'd suggest removing it from 8.3 contrib > > before we release (cause having it in both places is really going to > > cause confusion) > > One of pgfoundry's explicit purposes is for backports of features.
I can't think of any contrib modules we've added that also required backwards comptible modules to be released on foundry at the same time. ISTM that such a requirement would be an argument that such a thing doesn't belong in contrib at all. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings