Re: The Axe list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From tomas@tuxteam.de
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Msg-id 20081011044746.GE19474@tomas
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In response to Re: The Axe list  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:09:51PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> intagg: ...  Has not been updated since 2001.

[...]

> I also like intagg, because it's kinda like a "hello world" for
> writing one kind of C extensions.   I'm not saying it needs to
> stay in contrib.  Perhaps it could live on as an example in the docs?

and Tom Lane said upthread

> I tend to agree that chkpass is of doubtful value, but I'm not so sure
> about intagg.  As you said yourself, we haven't yet replaced its
> functionality with a generalized substitute.  Also, it's the only
> example in the current codebase of a useful technique, ie, an aggregate
> function doing its own memory management.

So it seems that intagg should rather live in a section "examples" than
in contrib?

(this seems to stem from the promotion of contrib from "just a bunch of
stuff which might be useful" to "useful modules you can use as-is to
extend PostgreSQL, no?)

Regards
- -- tomás
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