Packaging of contrib items

Clinging to sanity, chris@metatrontech.com (Chris Travers) mumbled into her beard:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>But many feel Slony is far better than previous solutions and should be
>>touted as we have touted other replication solutions in the past.

> Any chance that Slony will be packaged in the contrib directory?  Or
> is the time for that past?  After all, in 7.4, iirc. we still had
> things like rserv and other things which probably don't even work
> with 7.4.

There are two excellent reasons not to:

 1.  Slony-I is intended to be able to be "plugged" into several
     different versions of PostgreSQL.  Putting it in contrib would
     somewhat injure that.

 2.  Peter Eisentraut and Fabien Coelho have been working on "pgxs"
     which is designed to allow contrib to be essentially eliminated.

     The goal is not to increase the amount of stuff in contrib; it
     is to _eliminate_ contrib.

     That goes along with pgxs making it easy to have a large number
     of projects on GBorg/PGFoundry that can be easily added to a
     PostgreSQL install.
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