Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> marketing is not always "swear-word" :) We live in real world and
> there are many situations where marketing is the deciding vote.
I don't know about you, but I market PostgreSQL partially using
1. sane design, not driven by random demands
2. extensibility
which would be completely contradicted by moving any module into core
for "marketing" reasons.
> Not
> all are Tom Lane, who could convince customer saying there is no
> difference between contrib module and core feature, or that
> PostgreSQL is a mature database with fts add-on, which could be
> installed separately (with supersuser rights).
It's not like PostgreSQL is the first software product in the world to
provide a module or plugin mechanism. (It is incidentally the first
DBMS to do so.) People who refuse to understand that are idiots, and
we don't design for idiots.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/