Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> That's a lot more drastic change to make in beta. Besides, the proposed
> fix required backend changes. I think we should keep it in contrib. (At
> least for this release: If we get more integrated replication options in
> 8.5, that would be a good time to move pg_standby out of contrib if
> that's what we want.)
The proposed fix requires coordinated changes in the core and
pg_standby. That would be a lot *harder* if pg_standby were external.
Since we've evidently not gotten this API quite right yet, I think we
should be keeping pg_standby in contrib until we do, ie the API has been
stable for awhile ...
regards, tom lane