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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Joe Nelson <joe@begriffs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: POC: rational number type (fractions)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:21:48 -0400
Message-ID: <20200702142148.GK3125@tamriel.snowman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <850483.1593698487@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 7/1/20 7:00 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> ... extensions outside of PG simply don't thrive as independent projects.
> >> 
> >> There's various potential reasons for that, from being hard to find, to
> >> being hard to install and work with, to the fact that we don't have a
> >> centralized extension system (PGXN isn't really endorsed at all by
> >> core... and I don't really think it should be), and our general
> >> extension management system isn't particularly great anyway.
> 
> > Then these are things we should fix. But the right fix isn't including
> > every extension in the core code.
> 
> Yeah.  We *must not* simply give up on extensibility and decide that
> every interesting feature has to be in core.  I don't have any great
> ideas about how we grow the wider Postgres development community and
> infrastructure, but that certainly isn't the path to doing so.

I don't see where I was either proposing that we give up extensibility,
or that we have to include every extension in the core code.

Thanks,

Stephen

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