I am wondering if the contributed module <ltree> will always be part of Postgres? Do contributed modules ever get absorbed into Postgres itself?
The reason I am asking is that, although ltree seems to have been a contributed module since at least 8.3, how can one know if it will always be part of subsequent versions of Postgres? Are there any plans to make <ltree> a built-in datatype, like <json>, o<xml>, or the various Geometric Types (eg, <polygon>)? Michael Shapiro Senior Systems Engineer National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
