On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The benefit of moving relevant stuff is that it'll actually be installed > by default when installing postgres on many platforms. That's currently > often not the case. The contrib umbrella, as used by many other > projects, actually justifies not doing so.
Agreed. See my other response for my thoughts on that topic. >> It will make back-patching harder > > I think the amount of effort a simple renamed directory which wholly > contains a binary creates is acceptable. Just use patch -p4 instead of > patch -p1... That is fine if you are manually applying a patch that touches only that directory, but if the patch also touches other stuff then it's not as simple. And I don't know how well git cherry-pick will follow the moves. -- 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
