Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:48:16PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > But it is a valid point that we'd need to build up more extension
> > API tests before we start cutting back significantly on the
> > maybe-example-maybe-real extensions that we ship in contrib. We
> > need to find a good middle ground.
>
> Nowadays we can test concurrent behavior with isolationtester, and
> we can test APIs with src/test/modules. We can now easily add tests
> for lots of stuff that we don't currently test, without having
> modules that actually produce for-install programs or libraries.
>
> In any case, +1 on moving useful extensions to src/extensions/. I
> just read somewhere (not this thread?) that Debian for their 9.5
> packaging is going to get rid of the postgresql-contrib package, and
> instead they are going to ship all that stuff in the main package.
> Seems they were prompted to do this because of our inaction in this
> area ...

I suspect they may also have realized that anything not shipped in the
main distribution can cause enough bureaucratic pain, as in "write a
justification for the legal department for why we should install this
software," to cause things simply never to get installed.

Cheers,
David.
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