On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > We've been calling it "contrib" for a dozen years, so that name is > pretty well baked in by now. IMO renaming it is pointless and will > accomplish little beyond creating confusion and making back-patches > harder.
*Shrug*. Just change the name in the docs, then. It's currently "Additional Supplied Modules". Maybe just change that to "Additional Supplied Extensions" or, even better, "Core Extensions"? Best, David > (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that > all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with > git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking > feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3. > Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can > cope with.) How often do you have to back-patch contrib, anyway? David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
