On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 nd02tsk@student.hig.se wrote:
> Hello
>
> Why is it that PostgreSQL chooses to have features like replication,
> fulltext indexing and GIS maintained by others outside of the sourcetree?
well, in the case of replication, there are about a half dozen replication
solutions currently out there, each providing replication in a different
way, and non of them being "the definitive replication" ... also,
PostgreSQL was designed to be extensible, so stuff like FTI and GIS can be
plugged in *after* the server itself is up and running ... they are 'add
ons', not 'core features' ...
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