Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> I think that having it in contrib for a release cycle or so would be > >> exactly the right approach, actually. ?Peter's position that it should > >> be in /bin is fine *once the bugs are out*. ?Just dropping it there > >> doesn't make the bugs go away. > > > I think in the previous iteration of this discussion I had the > > impression that you felt that it wasn't really to the point where it > > even met our standards for /contrib (although, admittedly, it seems > > those are pretty darn low, at least as far as the stuff that's already > > in there goes). If I misunderstood or if that that's no longer your > > feeling then maybe it makes sense. > > In the 8.3->8.4 cycle I did think it was pretty half-baked. We've > stomped many of the worst limitations since then, so I think that for > 8.4->9.0 it might be a credible solution. We won't really know unless > we try.
True. I do see this as a much-requested feature (like built-in replication). > > But I don't think we should do it > > at this point unless it's as simple as "check it in and ship it". If > > doing this seems likely to make 9.0 take longer to get out the door, > > then I think we should wait and do it in 9.1 instead. > > Agreed, we're not holding up 9.0 for it. I think the main bit of work > that would be needed to put it into contrib would be to SGML-ize the > docs. Don't know if Bruce has got the time to get that done. Creating the SGML docs is trivial, especially compared to the 9.0 release notes SGML. ;-) It will take only an hour --- I am basically going to merge the README and the INSTALL file, remove mentions about migrating to < 9.0, and add SGML markup. I labored on README and the INSTALL files for a long time and can't figure out how to improve them. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
