Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module

From: Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, <nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module
Date: 2007-01-25 18:27:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0701251026440.30496-100000@denzel.in
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FWIW:

> * Better packaging support, eg make it easier to add/remove an extension
> module and control how pg_dump deals with it. We talked about that
> awhile back but nobody did anything with the ideas.

+1

> * Better documentation for the contrib modules; some of them are
> reasonably well doc'd now, but many are not, and in almost all cases
> it's only plain text not SGML.

+1

> * Better advertising, for instance make the contrib documentation
> available on the website (which probably requires SGML conversion
> to happen first...)

+1

RT

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