Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> writes:
> First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
> are not technical in nature.
What do you think "core adoption" means? Surely not that anything
associated with PGXN would be in the core distro.
> Right now contrib is serving two completely separate purposes:
> 1) location for code that (for technical reasons) should be tied to
> specific PG versions
> 2) indication of "official endorsement" of a module by the community
This argument ignores what I think is the real technical reason for
keeping contrib, which is to have a set of close-at-hand test cases
for extension and hook mechanisms. Certainly, not every one of the
existing contrib modules is especially useful for that purpose, but
quite a few of them are.
regards, tom lane
