On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think that it's not a good idea to devote too much energy to this
>> problem right now, anyway. [ we need to get to beta ASAP, instead ]
>
> I hear you, but once we get to beta, or even the last alpha, it's going
> to be very hard to make changes that would interfere with people doing
> upgrades or dump/restores. If we don't do something about the language-
> as-extension situation right now, the window will be closed until 9.2.
So what? AFAIK the extension patch hasn't broken anything here that
used to work. People can still install languages the way they always
have. What we're talking about here is a way of installing languages
that is arguably nicer than what they are doing now. The window for
feature enhancements is already closed until 9.2, unless you want to
go back and start working through every patch we marked Returned with
Feedback during this last CommitFest.
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