Re: add-ons and kernelization was Time to work on Press Release 8.0

Chris Travers wrote:
> I understand the advantage of kernelization in PostgreSQL, but to
> make this work, perhaps we need a community-maintained distribution
> which includes many of these other add-ons.

There are plenty of distributions out there, some community maintained.
Some do a better job at providing a complete set of PostgreSQL
"add-ons" than others.  If you're interested in that sort of thing,
join in the effort of your favorite distribution.

About half a year ago I was thinking exactly the same thing as what you
just wrote.  But I realized that there is virtually no room for a
"PostgreSQL distribution" to live between people who always download
the original sources and people who want the full service of their
operating system's package management.  I have since joined a community
maintained Linux distribution and now I have no problem getting all the
PostgreSQL software I need.

So if you're not getting reasonable access to PostgreSQL add-ons in your
OS environment, start packaging.  And if you're stuck with a vendor
that does not listen to your package requests, find a new one. :)

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/