Re: The reasoning behind having several features outside

Other people have answered, but I'd like to add:

It makes it much faster to fix bugs and improve features in the projects
outside of the source tree. If replication has a bug, you don't want to
wait for the next point release, you want a fix *now*. PostgreSQL is a
big project, and can't make new point releases every time a bug appears
in a small subsystem.

To make an analogy, imagine if you had to wait for a new release of your
operating system to fix a bug in an SSL library?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 20:19 +0200, nd02tsk(at)student(dot)hig(dot)se wrote:
> Hello
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> Why is it that PostgreSQL chooses to have features like replication,
> fulltext indexing and GIS maintained by others outside of the sourcetree?
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> I appreciate any answers.
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> Thank you.
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> Tim
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