Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> > I don't think that necessarily means it must continue to be in contrib.
> > Quite the contrary, I think it is a tool critical enough that it should
> > not be relegated to be a second-class citizen as it is now (let's face
> > it, being in contrib *is* second-class citizenship).
> 
> I have resisted that principle for years and will continue to do so.
> It is entirely reasonable for some DBAs to want certain functionality
> (debugging tools, crypto) to not be installed on their machines.
> Folding everything into core is not a good policy, IMHO.

I don't understand.  I'm just proposing that the source code for the
extension to live in src/extensions/, and have the shared library
installed by toplevel make install; I'm not suggesting that the
extension is installed automatically.  For that, you still need a
superuser to run CREATE EXTENSION.

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