Re: The contrib hit list

Sounds good to me... just wondering where dblink went?  Is it going to 
remain a part of the dist?

Sorry if this was already answered, I haven't had the time to check the 
archive.

-Jonah

Tom Lane wrote:

>Looking over the thread Josh started a few days ago, it seems there is
>consensus to move these contrib modules into separate projects on
>pgfoundry.org:
>
>adddepend
>dbase
>dbmirror
>fulltextindex
>mSQL-interface
>mac
>oracle
>tips
>
>and to kill these outright:
>
>array
>ipc_check
>miscutil
>mysql
>noupdate
>pg_dumplo
>pg_upgrade
>string
>tools
>tsearch
>xml
>
>There was also a suggestion to move findoidjoins to src/tools, since
>that's where it really belongs.
>
>Finally, various people have expressed interest in writing replacements
>for these:
>
>reindexdb
>userlock
>
>If I don't hear any objections, I'll "cvs delete" the candidates for
>outright kills in a day or two, and the pgfoundry candidates as soon
>as someone moves them over (not being much of a pgfoundry user, I'd
>prefer to let someone else set those projects up).  I'll move
>findoidjoins too.
>
>Anyone want to get to work on replacing reindexdb or userlock?  It'd
>be real nice to get rid of userlock so that we could have a clean story
>on all-BSD-license for 8.1.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
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