Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie ago 03 13:32:21 -0400 2012:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:53:22PM -0400, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > How ready are we to move it to src/bin/? Is it sensible to do so in
> > 9.3?
>
> We have talked about that. Several people felt the instructions for
> using pg_upgrade was already too complex and that it isn't a
> general-user utility like pg_dump. Not sure if that is still the
> general feeling.
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.
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