> Yeah, but things do seem to languish there for quite a while. (soundex(),
> for instance, was in contrib when I first looked at PG).
>
> Also, some things are in contrib/ that seem a bit out of date (I think
> there was still some early RI stuff in there last time I went through it)
>
> I understand the need not to stuff PG full of *everything* -- and perhaps
> stuff like soundex(), metaphone(), etc., shouldn't go into the core *. But
> I think if we leave them in contrib/, after a while, it feels like there's
> an implied comment on the quality/soundness of the code.
>
> Would it work to have a different mechanism for distributing proven yet
> out-of-the-mainstream stuff, like soundex(), etc.
>
>
> * - soundex(), in particular, should go into the core, though.
> Many other DBs have it built in, so users could reasonably have the
> expectation that we should have it.
Added to TODO:
* Move some things from /contrib into main tree, like soundex
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