-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:09:51PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> intagg: ... Has not been updated since 2001.
[...] > I also like intagg, because it's kinda like a "hello world" for > writing one kind of C extensions. I'm not saying it needs to > stay in contrib. Perhaps it could live on as an example in the docs? and Tom Lane said upthread > I tend to agree that chkpass is of doubtful value, but I'm not so sure > about intagg. As you said yourself, we haven't yet replaced its > functionality with a generalized substitute. Also, it's the only > example in the current codebase of a useful technique, ie, an aggregate > function doing its own memory management. So it seems that intagg should rather live in a section "examples" than in contrib? (this seems to stem from the promotion of contrib from "just a bunch of stuff which might be useful" to "useful modules you can use as-is to extend PostgreSQL, no?) Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI8C/yBcgs9XrR2kYRAr3WAJ0dDY6yVIqTitmjVB2bfih5K3/rzwCfd7wk 7hvtw/pHPyfbEUgGvFT87QQ= =iofV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers