Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:55:37 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
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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.
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