On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> Andres Freund wrote: >> >>> >>> If we had a checking module for all this it'd possibly be sufficient, >>> but we don't. >> >> Here's an idea. We need core-blessed extensions (src/extensions/, you >> know I've proposed this before), so why not take this opportunity to >> create our first such and make it carry a function to scan a table >> completely to do this task. >> >> Since we were considering a new VACUUM option, surely this is serious >> enough to warrant more than just contrib. > > What does "core-blessed" mean? The commit rights for contrib/ are the > same as they are for src/
Personally I understand contrib/ modules as third-part plugins that are considered as not enough mature to be part of src/backend or src/bin, but one day they could become so. See pg_upgrade's recent move for example. src/extensions/ includes third-part plugins that are thought as useful, are part of the main server package, but are not something that we want to enable by default. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers