Re: moving from contrib to bin

On 12/12/2014 03:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/9/14 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
>> server programs.  Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
>> server side in there?  I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
>> pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync.  (If we were feeling bold we
>> could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)
>
> I was thinking about that.  What do others think?

Sounds good. We already separate server and client programs in the docs, 
and packagers put them in different packages too. This should make 
packagers' life a little bit easier in the long run.

- Heikki