Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...

From: Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ding-dong, contrib is dead ...
Date: 2006-09-05 19:25:57
Message-ID: slrnefrjq5.2ea3.andrew+nonews@atlantis.supernews.net
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On 2006-09-05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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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