Re: moving from contrib to bin

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not really convinced this is a very good idea.  What do we get out
> of moving everything, or even anything, from contrib?  It will make
> back-patching harder, but more importantly, it will possibly create
> the false impression that everything we distribute is on equal
> footing.  Right now, we've got stuff like vacuumlo in contrib which is
> useful but, let's face it, also a cheap hack.  If we decide that
> executables can no longer live in contrib, then every time somebody
> submits something in the future, we've got to decide whether it
> deserves parity with psql and pg_dump or whether we shouldn't include
> it at all.  contrib is a nice middle-ground.

Yeah, that's a good point.  I think part of the motivation here is the
thought that some of these programs, like pg_upgrade, *should* now be
considered on par with pg_dump et al.  But it does not follow that
everything in contrib is, or should be, on that level.
        regards, tom lane