Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Abhijit Menon-Sen" <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...
Date: 2006-09-07 04:16:38
Message-ID: b42b73150609062116s36f1e02djb6dd800bb091555a@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/5/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com> wrote:
> At 2006-09-05 16:35:49 -0400, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
> >
> > The biggest part of the work needed is to write the documentation ---
> > but we'd have to do that for Abhijit's patch too, since the userlocks
> > docs presumably fall under GPL along with the code.
>
> I'll write the documentation, either for the code as it is, or for any
> replacement we decide to use.
>
> I didn't submit documentation (or a Makefile, uninstall_otherlock.sql,
> etc.) only because I didn't know if anything was going to be done with
> otherlock now. I just wanted to mention the existence of the code.
>
> > So basically I don't see the point of investing effort in a
> > bug-compatible version of userlocks, when we can have something
> > cleaner and suitable for the long run with not very much more
> > effort.
>
> Fine with me. Two questions:
>
> - Where would the code live, if it were in core?
> - Shall I hack up the API you suggested in your earlier message?

are we still moving forward with this? I would love to see this go in for 8.2.

merlin

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