Re: Extensions User Design - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: Extensions User Design
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Msg-id 87r5xauknz.fsf@hi-media-techno.com
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In response to Re: Extensions User Design  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
Responses Re: Extensions User Design  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dimitri
> Fontaine<dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:
>>
>>  - a core team approved list of extensions (replacing contribs,
>
> are you aware of the enormous job that will imply for core team?

I'm not saying I want core to take care of all pgfoundry projects that
will make them available as extensions, but to have contrib/ made
extensions and have core if possible continue doing what they have been
doing... forever?

> maybe a community approved list of extensions or maybe we can have
> some kind of jury (just like patch reviewers) that could test and mark
> as tested... i remember a conversation about this very point

Having other sources of extensions apart from contrib seems to me a very
good idea.

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Dimitri Fontaine
PostgreSQL DBA, Architecte


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