On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> On Red Hat, it is not packaged at all (at least not by me), and won't >>> be unless it goes into contrib. I don't believe it belongs in the >>> base package. > >> I confess to some confusion about what things "belong" where. Is >> contrib the right place for this because we think it's half-baked, or >> because we think most people won't use it, or just because we're >> violently allergic to adding stuff to src/bin, or what? > > The first two, if you ask me. And there's another point: I disagree > with the assumption that platform-specific packagings will or should > include test_fsync by default. It'd be better for the packager to make > a platform-specific choice of default for the users. I don't mind too > much putting it into a secondary subpackage such as postgresql-contrib, > but you won't be seeing it in postgresql-server.
I see. Well, that seems reasonable. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
