On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 04:01:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> >> I don't disagree with pg_upgrade being operationally complex, but I
>> >> don't see how this relates to contrib vs. non-contrib at all. Are we
>> >> supposed to only have "simple" programs in src/bin? That seems a
>> >> strange policy.
>> >
>> > Well, perhaps we need to re-open the discussion then.
>>
>> I feel like putting it in src/bin would carry an implication of
>> robustness that I'm not sanguine about. Granted, putting it in
>> contrib has already pushed the envelope in that direction further than
>> is perhaps warranted. But ISTM that if we ever want to put this in
>> src/bin someone needs to devote some serious engineering time to
>> filing down the rough edges.
>
> I don't know how to file down any of the existing rough edges.
That would be the "serious engineering time" Robert is referring to,
no? If you knew how to do it already it wouldn't require serious
engineering time, just SMOP.
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