Re: why is postgres-R not in standard dev Path.

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

chinni <naveen(dot)bysani(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Did you guys debate on merging it.

Yes.

If it were actually synced with our current CVS and potentially
mergeable, the debate might have been longer :-(.  But in point of fact,
postgres-R has never been less than two releases behind in the past five
years, and so there was never a time when merging it was technically
feasible.

There are also political issues --- merging it into our core would be
seen as blessing one particular replication solution to the exclusion
of others.

And last I checked, there were licensing issues, because postgres-R
depends on a group-communication package that doesn't use a BSD-style
license.

I'd personally be willing to override the political objections if the
other two categories of problems were surmounted.  But I doubt they
ever will be.

			regards, tom lane