Re: support for ltree

Geometric Data Types have been in PostgreSQL for quite a while.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/datatype-geometric.html

JSON have been in PostgreSQL since 9.2 and it's functionality increases with each new version.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/datatype-json.html

AFAIK, Most of the contributed modules have been changed into EXTENSIONs

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/extend-extensions.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/external-extensions.html

Check the /share/contrib  and /share/extension  directories under the PostgreSQL main directory to see what is available for your version.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51@gmail.com> wrote:

I am wondering if the contributed module <ltree> will always be part of Postgres? Do contributed modules ever get absorbed into Postgres itself?  

The reason I am asking is that, although ltree seems to have been a contributed module since at least 8.3, how can one know if it will always be part of subsequent versions of Postgres?

Are there any plans to make <ltree> a built-in datatype, like <json>, o<xml>, or the various Geometric Types (eg, <polygon>)?

Michael Shapiro

Senior Systems Engineer

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

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