Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Agreed, but I think the best response to that is something CPAN-like
>> for people to easily get hold of recognized extensions,

> It seems to me a better solution is to have appropriate repositories for
> distributions that have them than some cpan style thing that is going to
> break package dependencies.

Better than CPAN is no problem ;-).  My point is just that we should
exploit PG's extensibility rather than assume that everything
interesting must wind up in the core tarball.

> apt-get install postgresql-plproxy
> portinstall (I think that is the command) postgresql-plproxy

I believe Devrim already has a yum repository up and running for
RPM-based distros, though I'm not sure he's got anything but the core
packages in it (yet).
        regards, tom lane