Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> From a maintenance point of view there seems little need
> for either project to get integrated: they don't appear to have much
> of any code that is tightly tied to backend innards.

This is a slightly circular argument. They have had to be written with
no linkage to core to allow them to be created outside of it. 

I agree with your general principles on inclusion of features and also
agree that in this specific case the patches should be rejected. Growing
up outside of core cannot be a reason to exclude new capabilities from
core, but it is probably a reason to reject specific code.

In both these cases, I can see that the capability could be provided in
a different way and benefit from tighter integration.

I think we should return them with comments that if you integrate them
more with core *and* can justify having done so, then we might include
those features later.

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