Re: Core Extensions relocation

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Core Extensions relocation
Date: 2011-10-14 16:48:03
Message-ID: 201110141648.p9EGm3T25228@momjian.us
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Is this going to be done for 9.2?

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Greg Smith wrote:
> Following up on the idea we've been exploring for making some extensions
> more prominent, attached is the first rev that I think may be worth
> considering seriously. Main improvement from the last is that I
> reorganized the docs to break out what I decided to tentatively name
> "Core Extensions" into their own chapter. No longer mixed in with the
> rest of the contrib modules, and I introduce them a bit differently.
> If you want to take a quick look at the new page, I copied it to
> http://www.2ndquadrant.us/docs/html/extensions.html
>
> I'm not completely happy on the wordering there yet. The use of both
> "modules" and "extensions" is probably worth eliminating, and maybe that
> continues on to doing that against the language I swiped from the
> contrib intro too. There's also a lot of shared text at the end there,
> common wording from that and the contrib page about how to install and
> migrate these extensions. Not sure how to refactor it out into another
> section cleanly though.
>
> Regression tests came up last time I posted this. Doesn't look like
> there are any for the modules I'm suggesting should be promoted. Only
> code issue I noticed during another self-review here is that I didn't
> rename contrib/pgrowlocks/pgrowlocks--unpackaged--1.0.sql cleanly, may
> need to do that one over again to get the commits as clean as possible.
>
> Updated code is at
> https://github.com/greg2ndQuadrant/postgres/tree/move-contrib too, and
> since this is painful as a patch the compare view at
> https://github.com/greg2ndQuadrant/postgres/compare/master...move-contrib
> will be easier for browsing the code changes.
>
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