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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 11:49:17 +0100
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc@gmail.com>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>,
	Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>,
	Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Subject: Re: Pluggable toaster
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On 2023-Feb-06, Nikita Malakhov wrote:

> Currently we're busy revising the whole Pluggable TOAST API to make it
> available as an extension and based on hooks to minimize changes in
> the core. It will be available soon.

Hmm, I'm not sure why would PGDG want to accept such a thing.  I read
"minimize changes" as "open source Postgres can keep their crap
implementation and companies will offer good ones for a fee".  I'd
rather have something that can give users direct benefit -- not hide it
behind proprietary licenses forcing each company to implement their own
performant toaster.

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Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/