Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add pg_audit, an auditing extension

On 10 June 2015 at 14:41, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 03:54:59PM -0400, David Steele wrote:
>> I've certainly had quite the experience as a first-time contributor
>> working on this patch. Perhaps I bit off more than I should have and I
>> definitely managed to ruffle a few feathers along the way. I learned a
>> lot about how the community works, both the good and the bad. Fear not,
>> though, I'm not so easily discouraged and you'll definitely be hearing
>> more from me.
>
> Glad to hear it.
>
>> The stated purpose of contrib is: "include porting tools, analysis
>> utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL
>> system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too
>> experimental to be part of the main source tree. This does not preclude
>> their usefulness."
>>
>> Perhaps we should consider modifying that language, because from my
>> perspective pg_audit fit the description perfectly.
>
> "What is contrib?" attracts enduring controversy; see recent thread "RFC:
> Remove contrib entirely" for the latest episode. However that discussion
> concludes, that documentation passage is not too helpful as a guide to
> predicting contrib patch reception. (Most recent contrib additions had an
> obvious analogy to an existing module, sidestepping the question.)

Is pg_audit being resubmitted for 9.6 at all?

Thom