Tom Lane wrote:
Actually, I don't think you can reasonably blame the Debian packager for having overlooked the fact that contrib/dblink has more documentation files besides its README. The PGDG RPM people overlooked that too, as did Red Hat (ie, me).
Well, in my own defense, I pointed out the change explicitly when I submitted the patch (which was over 3 years ago now, prior to 7.3 beta feature freeze), and no one objected back then:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-08/msg00640.php
While we (the packagers) could fix this now that our attention has been called to it, I wonder whether the better plan wouldn't be to insist that dblink and tsearch2 fall into line with the rest of the contrib modules. At the very least we need a uniform convention for docs files so that packagers won't be playing catchup forever.
I'm happy to lump all the docs back into the README if that's what you want, but I split it up in the first place because it was getting very long.
Joe
