Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> The problem with this proposal is that the ISPs aren't the ones running
>> configure --- these days, most people are running prebuilt packages
>> (RPMs or DEBs or what have you).  So what you are hoping is that the
>> packagers will choose to do this and thereby force these modules into
>> the "standard" configuration for everybody using their packages.  I'm
>> not sure that the packagers will change ... well maybe Gentoo will,
>> but not anyone with more conservative policies ... and I'm pretty sure
>> any who do will get push-back from people who still won't trust contrib.
> 
> Well perhaps it is time to trim Contrib even further. E.g;
> 
> Why is ltree still in contrib? What prevents it from being in core?

not sure - ltree is quite useful but I'm not convinced it is really core 
material

> 
> Why is pgcrypto,pgstattuple and pg_freespacemap in contrib?

I would like to see pgcrypto (or at least some of it's functionality) in 
core.
pgstattuple is still being quite activily developed (just look at the 
large changes/feature enhancements for 8.2 which seems like a sign of it 
not being ready yet.
pg_freespacemap is iirc new as of 8.2 so it imho never was a candidate 
for core.


Stefan