Re: Contributing code

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Don Y <pgsql(at)DakotaCom(dot)Net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Contributing code
Date: 2006-05-22 21:18:07
Message-ID: 20060522211806.GU64371@pervasive.com
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:37:30AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:54:02PM -0700, Don Y wrote:
> > I assumed that the contents of ./contrib have NOT been
> > thoroughly tested/reviewed by the Postgres team (though
> > that is just an impression I have... i.e. why have those
> > features not been INTEGRATED into the codebase?)
>
> contrib has been tested to a reasonable level, maybe not as much as the
> core, but by including it, the core team takes some responsibility for
> its maintainence.
>
> The reasons they're not integrated are varied:
>
> - They don't need to be. What they do is not required for standards
> compliance and most people don't care. However, they're useful to
> enough people to ship with the main system.
>
> - What does "integration" mean anyway. Do we really want fuzzy string
> matching installed on every postgres system out there by default? In
> contrib they're easily available for people who want it.
>
> We're taking advantage of the fact that postgres is modular, which
> means we don't need to install heaps of crap into the main system, and
> instead users can choose which bits they want.

Also, some things in contrib are tied into the backend in such a way
that they're very version dependant, so it makes sense to keep them in
contrib.
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