On 2021-Apr-18, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 4/17/21 3:43 PM, Mark Dilger wrote:
> > I'd also like your impressions on whether we're likely to move > > contrib/amcheck into core anytime soon. If so, is it worth adding > > an option that we'll soon need to deprecate? > > I think if it stays as an extension it will stay in contrib. But it sure > feels very odd to have a core bin program that relies on a contrib > extension. It seems one or the other is misplaced. I've proposed in the past that we should have a way to provide extensions other than contrib -- specifically src/extensions/ -- and then have those extensions installed together with the rest of core. Then it would be perfectly legitimate to have src/bin/pg_amcheck that depending that extension. I agree that the current situation is not great. -- Álvaro Herrera 39°49'30"S 73°17'W "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end." (2nd Commandment for C programmers)
