Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun may 09 14:31:33 -0400 2011:
>> I'm happy enough with that set of guidelines: namely, that we'd use
>> src/extension only for things that don't require additional
>> dependencies, and not for things that build standalone executables.
>> If we're going to move things around, I think we should take the
>> trouble to categorize them along the way, and your idea of inserting
>> one more subdirectory under src/extension for grouping seems fine to
>> me.
> For executables we already have src/bin. Do we really need a separate
> place for, say, pg_standby or pg_upgrade?
Putting them in there implies we think they are of core-code quality.
I'm definitely *not* ready to grant that status to pg_upgrade, for
instance.
regards, tom lane
