"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> We already use some contrib stuff in the regression tests. (It really is time we stopped calling it contrib.)
> Call them "core extensions". Works well considering Dimitri's work, which explicitly makes them extensions. So maybe
changethe directory name to "extensions" or "ext"?
We've been calling it "contrib" for a dozen years, so that name is
pretty well baked in by now. IMO renaming it is pointless and will
accomplish little beyond creating confusion and making back-patches
harder. (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with
git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
cope with.)
regards, tom lane
