Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: andrew(at)supernews(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
Date: 2005-06-07 21:00:53
Message-ID: 200506071400.53837.josh@agliodbs.com
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Andrew,

> userlocks is just a very thin interface to functionality that's really in
> the backend. What's left in contrib/userlock probably isn't even
> copyrightable in any case. The best bet is probably to re-implement it in
> the backend directly.
>
> Removing it certainly isn't a good idea; the functionality is important.

Hmm. It needs to be re-written from scratch then so that we can remove the
GPL, or if you can get an attorney to say it's not copyrightable ...

> (It doesn't "rely on per-record OIDs" either.)

Ah, I misread the code then. It still seems like application code to me, but
I'll happily admit to not really understanding it.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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