On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:37:30AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:54:02PM -0700, Don Y wrote: > > I assumed that the contents of ./contrib have NOT been > > thoroughly tested/reviewed by the Postgres team (though > > that is just an impression I have... i.e. why have those > > features not been INTEGRATED into the codebase?) > > contrib has been tested to a reasonable level, maybe not as much as the > core, but by including it, the core team takes some responsibility for > its maintainence. > > The reasons they're not integrated are varied: > > - They don't need to be. What they do is not required for standards > compliance and most people don't care. However, they're useful to > enough people to ship with the main system. > > - What does "integration" mean anyway. Do we really want fuzzy string > matching installed on every postgres system out there by default? In > contrib they're easily available for people who want it. > > We're taking advantage of the fact that postgres is modular, which > means we don't need to install heaps of crap into the main system, and > instead users can choose which bits they want. Also, some things in contrib are tied into the backend in such a way that they're very version dependant, so it makes sense to keep them in contrib. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
