On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Let's take another crack at moving stuff out of contrib. Nobody likes
> contrib. The task is only finding something that most people like better.
I like contrib fine. It's a great place for things to live that are
not quite baked enough for core, but still worth distributing.
> 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.
I think pg_archivecleanup, pg_upgrade, and possibly pgbench have
enough general utility to justify putting them in src/bin, but not the
rest. oid2name, pg_standby, and vacuumlo are probably closer to being
candidates for removal than promotion in my book.
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