Re: Modifying and solidifying contrib

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> With all the recent discussion on contrib modules etc.. I would like to
> offer the following suggestion.

AFAICT you're proposing an entirely cosmetic reclassification of /contrib.
Aside from the difficulty of getting agreement on which ones should be
"in" and which "out", what does that really buy us?  The thing that
would be really useful to work on is developing a concrete
representation of a "module" that pg_dump would understand, so that you
could e.g. tell it to omit btree_gist from a dump.  It might be that
just segregating a contrib module into its own schema would be
sufficient, or maybe that wouldn't work well because of making people
need to deal with long search paths.
        regards, tom lane