Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > My feeling is that if it's as flakey and unreliable as it currently > is, we shouldn't ship it. Removing it from CVS doesn't mean "you > can't use this any more"; this is open source. It just means people > will have to go and get an old copy out of CVS and presumably in so > doing they will be aware that we've removed it for a reason. We have > a well-deserved reputation for quality and I would like to see us > preserve that.
[ shrug... ] It is not any more flaky than it's been since it was put in. The people who have been depending on it presumably have use-patterns for which it doesn't fail, and we're not going to be doing them a service by ripping out functionality for which we can't offer a replacement. As for the "quality" argument, contrib modules are not guaranteed to be of the same standard as the core code; anyone who thinks they are should disabuse themselves of the notion by reading some of that code. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers