"Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 15:42 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 12/10/2010 03:24 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Also, once extensions and pgxn are operating full swing, I see contrib
>>> going away anyway ...
>> We've heard this before, but I'm still quite skeptical about it. Quite
>> apart from anything else we should keep enough extensions in core to
>> test the extension mechanism, as well as to provide examples as part of
>> the base distribution. Some (e.g. hstore and citext) should probably
>> move into core. Others like pgcrypto are probably in just the right
>> place as they are.
> I hope that contrib goes away. I agree with your assertion that things
> like hstore and citext shoudl be in core but it is my hope that with
> extensions and pgxn, there will be no reason for contrib to exist at
> all.
I agree with Andrew --- we're going to need a collection of "standard
extensions" if only for testing purposes. It may someday not be called
contrib, but it'll still be there.
regards, tom lane
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