Re: moving from contrib to bin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: moving from contrib to bin
Date
Msg-id 54873D0A.4040106@agliodbs.com
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In response to moving from contrib to bin  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: moving from contrib to bin  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> Here are the contrib programs:
> 
> oid2name
> pg_archivecleanup
> pg_standby
> pg_test_fsync
> pg_test_timing
> pg_upgrade
> pg_xlogdump
> pgbench
> vacuumlo
> 
> The proposal would basically be to mv contrib/$x src/bin/$x and also
> move the reference pages in the documentation.

+1

Considering that all of the above have been around for a while, it's
kind of silly that they're still in contrib.  Mostly that just
guarantees that nobody will use them, even when it's appropriate.

The one exception I might make above is pg_standby.  What do we need
this for today, exactly?

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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