Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew - Supernews
Subject Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...
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In response to Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 2006-09-05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Right, I see the pgfoundry project as just a backwards-compatibility
> thing for anyone who doesn't want to change their code.  I'm happy to
> put some cleaned-up functions into core right now (ie, for 8.2) if
> someone will do the legwork to define and implement them.

So you're prepared to violate the feature freeze to stick in a new API
that nobody currently wants to _use_, while forcing existing users to
resort to pgfoundry for a module that's been around for several major
releases?

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