On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:29:37PM -0700, Swaminathan Saikumar wrote:
> 4. Why not provide that feature as a core feature, rather than an add-on? If
> the community really feels strongly about this, discourage this practice
> with a best-practices section, citing problems with examples, and
> workarounds. But why don't you provide this feature out of the box? After
> all, isn't widespread adoption of a high quality database like Postgres our
> overall goal?
Why do people read the word "add-on" in a negative way? All it means is
"not installed by default", which is probably a good thing since the
security implications are not trivial. Installation is just a
question of:
psql -f <dblink install script>
(assuming your admin didn't do a minimal install).
I'm unsure what "widespread adoption of postgres" has to do with any of
this though.
Have a nice day,
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