Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely
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Msg-id 5372.1432936491@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: RFC: Remove contrib entirely  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> writes:
> The problem here is that these ranges are controlled by a
> decentralized patchwork of national standards bodies, and the ranges
> are always subject to revision. I think that it's egregious that
> contrib/isn imagines it can track that with a static array.

Well, that module has already been rewritten once (which proves that
there's an audience out there for it).  Perhaps somebody will rewrite it
again to support a non-hardwired set of ranges.  Now that we have the
concept of an extension configuration table, that'd be one possible
way to fix it ...
        regards, tom lane



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