Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyQRY-0004AG-GE for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyQRX-0005UH-Tn for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:47 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyQRU-0005PI-KA for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:44 +0000 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com ([69.168.55.30]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YyQRP-0003cd-KO for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:43 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (spinlock.commandprompt.com [69.168.55.30]) by lists.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EEF7B2E0; Fri, 29 May 2015 12:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([67.168.169.165] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by assp.commandprompt.com with ESMTPS(AES128-SHA) (2.1.1); 29 May 2015 12:59:36 -0700 Message-ID: <5568C538.3070302@commandprompt.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 12:59:52 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Stehule CC: Jeff Janes , Guillaume Lelarge , Fabien COELHO , Stephen Frost , Peter Eisentraut , PostgreSQL Developers Subject: Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely References: <55674016.80005@commandprompt.com> <20150528193556.GH26667@tamriel.snowman.net> <5567C5EB.3070703@gmx.net> <5567CB9E.1030502@commandprompt.com> <20150529031004.GU26667@tamriel.snowman.net> <5567DDBA.8020403@commandprompt.com> <5568BBEA.8030707@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Assp-Version: 2.1.1(11364) on assp.commandprompt.com X-Assp-Client-SSL: yes X-Assp-ID: assp.commandprompt.com m1-29576-02343 X-Assp-Envelope-From: jd@commandprompt.com X-Assp-Intended-For: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org X-Assp-Original-Subject: Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Remove contrib entirely X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-hackers Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org 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 -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ 503-667-4564 PostgreSQL Centered full stack support, consulting and development. Announcing "I'm offended" is basically telling the world you can't control your own emotions, so everyone else should do it for you. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers