Re: Moving test_fsync to /contrib?

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>> It seems like /contrib would be more natural, no?  /bin seems like
>>> overkill because most people will not want to run it.  Most of /contrib
>>> is installed already by installers, I think.
>
>> At least on Red Hat, it is packaged separately.
>
> On Red Hat, it is not packaged at all (at least not by me), and won't
> be unless it goes into contrib.  I don't believe it belongs in the
> base package.

I confess to some confusion about what things "belong" where. Is
contrib the right place for this because we think it's half-baked, or
because we think most people won't use it, or just because we're
violently allergic to adding stuff to src/bin, or what?

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