Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I agree with the subsequent comments suggesting a sample module that >> actually does something useful --- although if it's going to link to >> external code like cracklib, it probably is going to have to be on >> pgfoundry not in contrib.
> Why is that? we have plenty of other things in contrib that rely on > external code, for example the uuid, xml or ssl stuff. Well, maybe. I was concerned about availability, portability, license compatibility, and so on. The bar's a lot lower for pgfoundry projects on all those points ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers