Re: adminpack and pg_catalog - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: adminpack and pg_catalog
Date
Msg-id 454EFA10.9070701@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: adminpack and pg_catalog  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: adminpack and pg_catalog  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Nothing except initdb should add objects in pg_catalog.  AFAICS, 
>> adminpack doesn't have any special requirements, so it should behave 
>> like all other contrib modules.
> 
> Where are we on this? When this topic was last discussed, the three
> alternatives were:>
>     (1) Modify contrib/adminpack to not use the pg_catalog schema,
>             per the consensus that contrib/ packages installing objects
>             into that schema is broken behavior
> 
>     (2) Don't modify contrib/adminpack, for the sake of backward
>             compatibility
> 
>     (3) Remove contrib/adminpack from the Postgres distribution
> 
> I think the discussion was edging toward #3, but #2 is the only option
> that I'm not happy with. Any other opinions out there?

Looking back over the thread, it appears that only you and Peter 
objected to it as it is now. Tom, Andreas and myself were of the opinion 
it was fine as it is, and whilst he didn't comment on how it should be 
implemented, Simon made the point that supporting admin tools from the 
core distribution was important which I take to mean he is against #3.

Regards, Dave.


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