Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>> > I don't think that necessarily means it must continue to be in contrib.
>> > Quite the contrary, I think it is a tool critical enough that it should
>> > not be relegated to be a second-class citizen as it is now (let's face
>> > it, being in contrib *is* second-class citizenship).
>>
>> I have resisted that principle for years and will continue to do so.
>> It is entirely reasonable for some DBAs to want certain functionality
>> (debugging tools, crypto) to not be installed on their machines.
>> Folding everything into core is not a good policy, IMHO.
>
> I don't understand.  I'm just proposing that the source code for the
> extension to live in src/extensions/, and have the shared library
> installed by toplevel make install; I'm not suggesting that the
> extension is installed automatically.  For that, you still need a
> superuser to run CREATE EXTENSION.

Oh.  Well, that's different.  I don't particularly support that
proposal, but I'm not prepared to fight over it either.

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