Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> writes:
> > But people are evidently still setting packaging policies based on how
> > things were back in 7.3, even though that perhaps isn't necessary
> > anymore.
>
> FWIW, once you get past the client versus server distinction, I think
> most subpackaging decisions are based on either the idea that "only a
> minority of people will want this", or a desire to limit how many
> dependencies are pulled in by the main package(s). Both of those
> concerns apply to various subsets of -contrib, which means it's going
> to be hard to persuade packagers to fold -contrib into the -server
> package altogether. Nor would you gain their approval by trying to
> pre-empt the decision.
>
> We might get somewhere by trying to identify a small set of particularly
> popular contrib modules that don't add any extra dependencies, and then
> recommending to packagers that those ones get bundled into the main
> server package.
>
> > Certainly it's not a huge amount of code; less than 2MB these days.
> > -> % wc `dpkg -L postgresql-contrib-9.0` | tail -1
> > 15952 67555 1770987 total
>
> Well, to add some concrete facts rather than generalities to my own post,
> here are the sizes of the built RPMs from my last build for Fedora:
>
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 3839458 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 490788 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-contrib-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 27337677 Apr 18 10:51 postgresql-debuginfo-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 961660 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-devel-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 7569048 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-docs-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 246506 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-libs-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 64940 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-plperl-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 65776 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-plpython-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 45941 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-pltcl-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 5302117 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-server-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 1370509 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-test-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r--. 1 tgl tgl 3644113 Apr 18 10:50 postgresql-upgrade-9.0.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
Is that last one pg_upgrade? It seems very big.
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