Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: DBlink documentation

Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, I don't think you can reasonably blame the Debian packager
> for having overlooked the fact that contrib/dblink has more
> documentation files besides its README.  The PGDG RPM people overlooked
> that too, as did Red Hat (ie, me).

Well, in my own defense, I pointed out the change explicitly when I
submitted the patch (which was over 3 years ago now, prior to 7.3 beta
feature freeze), and no one objected back then:
   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-08/msg00640.php

> While we (the packagers) could fix this now that our attention has been
> called to it, I wonder whether the better plan wouldn't be to insist
> that dblink and tsearch2 fall into line with the rest of the contrib
> modules.  At the very least we need a uniform convention for docs files
> so that packagers won't be playing catchup forever.

I'm happy to lump all the docs back into the README if that's what you
want, but I split it up in the first place because it was getting very long.

Joe