[pgpool-hackers: 340] Re: reorganisation of pgpool-II source tree

[Bruce Momjian]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:46:07PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Thanks Tatsuo. When will you begin committing changes for 3.4?
> > 
> > Usama has made some improvements to the regression test suite for pgpool,
> > we will sending those change early this week.
> > 
> > Btw, I have added another task to the internally tracked todo list for
> > pgpool, it is
> > 
> > "We would like to see pgppol in separate sub modules that can be installed
> > separately for each feature, along with a common -libs subpackage or so.
> > The idea is that if someone just want to install load balancing for pgpool,
> > they should be able to do that without installing all the other features. I
> > suppose the changes done to the directory structure are a step in that
> > direction."
> > 
> > I am hoping we can also do this for 3.4.
> 
> No sure I like the direction. What is the benefit of installing "load
> balancing module" only? Module size reducing? Speed up?

The concern I have heard is that PgPool does so many things, it is hard
to only use certain parts while avoiding others.  I personally think
that documentation and perhaps configuration changes are the right
solution to this, rather than feature sub-modules.

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