On fre, 2010-04-30 at 10:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the end, the main useful function that contrib serves is to provide
> examples of how to write Postgres extensions.
Maybe, but pg_migrator surely doesn't fit that. And neither does about
a third of the other contrib modules, IMO.
> Because of that, removing
> it as Peter suggests doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
contrib means many things to many people, and that's exactly the problem
in my mind: It doesn't mean anything in particular. If we were to
separate it into
- examples
- production-quality add-ons with small user base
- production-quality add-ons that everyone wants, but we keep them as
plugins because plugins are cool
- experimental code that we wanted to ship anyway
- (historically) differently licensed code
then these discussions would be much simpler.