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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 12:59:52 -0700
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On 05/29/2015 12:30 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

>     Contrib made sense years ago. It does not any longer. Let's put the
>     old horse down and raise a new herd of ponies on a new pasture.
>
>
> Still there is strong sense - it is a referential implementation of our
> extension API. We need it to find regressions, changes. I don't believe

No, then we need a proper test suite for the extension API.

> so external extensions can do it. Only PostGIS is massively accepted and
> developed by more than few people. Personally I am thinking so removing
> contrib is not good idea.

Is there an extension/contrib module in the last decade that more than 
once has shown to help us with that?


Sincerely,

JD



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