Re: contrib promotion?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>There has been action to clean up and remove some contrib modules, and 
>>this is good. I would like to suggest that we should try to move one or 
>>two the other way, namely right into the core proper, on the ground that 
>>they have widespread applicability and should have maximum visibility. 
>>I'm talking particularly about pgcrypto and tsearch2, and the main thing 
>>lacking that I see with these is documentation.
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>I don't see a strong need for moving pgcrypto into core, and there's at
>least one argument against it: if someone needs a crypto-free version of
>postgres for use someplace with benighted laws, they would be screwed.
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Could that be handled with a configure option?

>tsearch2 is functionality that definitely should be in core eventually,
>but even Oleg still says it's not done.  Aside from the documentation
>issue, it's not clear that we've got a stable API for it.
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Well, that's a pity. This will be the 4th release with it in contrib, 
IIRC. I know it's advanced stuff,  but surely it has to settle down 
sometime.


Quite apart from anything else, it's important that we do get better 
docco on these modules.

cheers

andrew