Re: contrib uninstall scripts need some love - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: contrib uninstall scripts need some love
Date
Msg-id 20060910202302.GA80446@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: contrib uninstall scripts need some love  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:09:24PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >Awhile back, someone went around and made sure that all the contrib
> >modules had uninstall scripts, but most of the new contributions since
> >then don't have 'em:
> >    adminpack hstore pg_freespacemap pgrowlocks sslinfo
> >all seem to need one.  Also, I tested a few of the existing uninstall
> >scripts in passing while fixing the contains/contained mess, and two
> >out of four were broken (failed to remove everything installed by the
> >module, as shown by getting errors if you then try to reinstall it).
> >Seems like this area needs more attention ... anyone want to work on it?
> 
> I'll take it. How long do I have?

For reference, here are some comments about the cleanup work I did
a while back:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-03/msg00163.php

-- 
Michael Fuhr


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