> > Well, a third party author always has the option to release his code
> > separately on whatever timeline seems good to him. But I think that for
> > third-party code included in the distribution, the same standards ought
> > to apply as for the Postgres code itself: we don't want people sticking
> > alpha-quality code into a Postgres release tarball, whether it's core
> > functionality or not. It's not as if "no new features for a month" is
> > a particularly onerous standard to meet ;-)
>
> agreed about the alpha quality, but if someone like D'Arcy or Constantin
> releases a new version of their code, is there any reason to hold off on
> bringing that in? Haven't we done that in the past with pgaccess as it
> is? I seem to recall Bruce bringing in a new release of PgAccess close to
> the release, but am not 100% certain of this ...
Yes, that is true. I don't have a problem with 3rd party stuff that
does not install by default.
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