Re: ISBN/ISSN/ISMN/EAN13 module

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>
Cc: Jeremy Kronuz <kronuz(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ISBN/ISSN/ISMN/EAN13 module
Date: 2006-08-22 13:48:55
Message-ID: 44EB0B47.7010509@dunslane.net
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Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Aug 22, 2006, at 2:52 , Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>>
>> Do we want to replace our /contrib/isbn with this, or have it pgfoundry?
>
> If contrib/isbn is made obsolete by the pgfoundry ISBN/ISSN/ISMN/EAN13
> code, unless there's a compelling reason that the pgfoundry be part of
> the distribution, I recommend removing contrib/isbn from the core
> distribution and pointing people to pgfoundry.
>

AFAIK there is no code currently on pgfoundry. We had a proposed project
a little while back but the proposer got impatient and decided to
withdraw it.

I think that having this or a similar module in contrib has some
advantages, as an example on how to do user defined types, and as a
check that pgxs is working in such cases.

cheers

andrew

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