Re: modules

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> IMO the core modules should be compiled via configure with something
> like:
> ./configure --enable-module=ALL

If you really want to make the problems with using contrib modules go 
away, so they are a) installed even by lazy ISPs who just do 
compile/make/make install, and b) not viewed as second-class citizens when 
people have to ask them to be installed, this won't do it.  You should 
default to installing all the modules and provide configure options to 
turn them off instead.  All PostgreSQL installations should have them all 
available (but not installed in the database, as you point out) unless 
someone goes out of their way to circumvent that.

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