On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:29, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:25, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> Some of my personal discussions of this topic have suggested that some other
>>> popular extensions like pgcrypto and hstore get converted too. I think
>>> those all fail test (3), and I'm not actually sure where pgcrypto adds any
>>> special dependency/distribution issues were it to be moved to the main
>>> database package. If this general idea catches on, a wider discussion of
>>> what else should get "promoted" to this extensions area would be
>>> appropriate. The ones I picked seemed the easiest to justify by this
>>> criteria set.
>>
>> pgcrypto would cause trouble for any builds *without* SSL. I don't
>> think any packagers do that, but people doing manual builds would
>> certainly get different results.
>
> What kind of trouble? It should work fine without SSL.
Oh, you're right - it does. But it does provide different
functionalties? Or does it actually do exactly the same stuff, just in
different ways?
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