Re: moving from contrib to bin

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: moving from contrib to bin
Date: 2015-01-18 13:16:40
Message-ID: 20150118131640.GF11664@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-01-18 22:02:13 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Andrew Gierth
> > 2) in any event it is essentially deprecated in favour of standby_mode
> > and therefore moving it to src/bin seems like a wrong move on two counts?
> There were some discussions about that a couple of months ago, and the
> conclusion was to not remove it. Please see here for more information:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/545946E9(dot)8060504(at)gmx(dot)net#545946E9(dot)8060504@gmx.net

Sure, but not removing doesn't imply moving it. The other tools don't
have a replacement and are more or less actively maintained. I don't
think that's really the case for pg_standby. We do *not* want to give
it more credence by declaring it to be part of core.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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