Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Added the Skytools extended transaction ID module to contrib as
Date: 2007-10-09 08:58:56
Message-ID: 20071009085856.GC3093@svr2.hagander.net
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Monday 08 October 2007 16:29, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > The whole contrib thing confuses a lot of users. Is it included, or
> > > isn't it? IMHO, that distinction need to be clear, and I thought we
> > > were working (if not actively then at least passively) to "retire"
> > > contrib, moving things either to core or to pgFoundry. Adding yet
> > > another important feature that's "just in contrib" is making things
> > > worse, not better.
> > > IMHO, of course ;-)
> > >
> >
> > +1. I felt the same way about pg_standby, which would have been far more
> > accessible for 8.2 users had it lived on pg_foundry.
>
> I think we should move a version of pg_standby to pg_foundry anyway,
> specifically to support 8.2 users.

Are you saying you want two versions of pg_standby, one in contrbi and one
on pgfoundry, or are you saying we should take the one in contrib away?

//Magnus

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