Re: moving from contrib to bin

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm not really convinced this is a very good idea. What do we get out
> of moving everything, or even anything, from contrib? It will make
> back-patching harder, but more importantly, it will possibly create
> the false impression that everything we distribute is on equal
> footing. Right now, we've got stuff like vacuumlo in contrib which is
> useful but, let's face it, also a cheap hack. If we decide that
> executables can no longer live in contrib, then every time somebody
> submits something in the future, we've got to decide whether it
> deserves parity with psql and pg_dump or whether we shouldn't include
> it at all. contrib is a nice middle-ground.

Yeah, that's a good point. I think part of the motivation here is the
thought that some of these programs, like pg_upgrade, *should* now be
considered on par with pg_dump et al. But it does not follow that
everything in contrib is, or should be, on that level.

regards, tom lane