On 2/10/17 2:24 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> There's a bunch of these things in /contrib which really ought to be
>> PGXN extensions (also CUBE, earthdistance, etc.). However, one of the
>> steps in that would be getting the mainstream platforms to package them
>> so that users have a reasonable upgrade path, so I would not propose
>> doing it for 10.
>
> Part of the reason for keeping a number of extensions is that it helps
> test our extension infrastructure. Also they server as good pieces of
> example code. So I don't want to get rid of them all, or even any of
> them that have any degree of significant use. I think these days
> tsearch2 is very largely redundant, so that means there's a good reason
> not to keep it. But that's not true of cube, isn etc.
That's based on an assumption that PGXN shouldn't be treated as part of
the community effort, which I think is a mistake. Having a robust,
community run extension/package/module framework has proven to be
extremely valuable for other programming environments, and IMHO we
should be striving to improve in that area.
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