Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:53:32PM -0300, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Moving to PgFoundry is NOT "Demotion"
> ----------------------------------------

Yeah, I agree. Lots of people understand "search in pgfoundry.org" much
easily than "see contrib/adddepend". (I agree with most of the rest of
your comments as well.)

> adddepend: is this still needed, or would a proper
> dump-and-reload from 7.2 add the dependancy information anyway?

Yes, it's still needed: a normal dump/reload doesn't fix the problem.

> findoidjoins: again, it's not clear what this module is for.
> Bruce?

I don't think this should be a contrib at all. It's more like a
developer tool.

> lo: another special data type. Is its functionality required
> anymore? It appears to be a workaround to some limitations of
> our large object interface which may no longer exist.

No, it's still needed I think. It's somewhat redundant with vacuumlo
apparently? The functionality of both should be incorporated into the
backend somehow, I'd think.

> pg_dumplo: is this still required for pg large objects? If
> so, can't we integrate it into the core? utilities/

I believe pg_dump has this functionality, with -O.

> reindexdb: now obsolete per the REINDEX {database} command.
> Remove from contrib.

No, this is different than REINDEX DATABASE.

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