Hi, On 2018-12-14 13:25:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Our track record in borrowing code from "upstream" projects is pretty > miserable: almost without exception, we've found ourselves stuck with > maintaining such code ourselves after a few years. I don't see any > reason to think that wouldn't be true here; in fact there's much more > reason to worry here than we had for, eg, borrowing the regex code. > The maintenance track record of this github repo appears to span six > months, and it's now been about four months since the last commit. > It might be abandonware already.
It's been absorbed into MSVC's standard library and a bunch of other projects, so there's certainly some other prominent adoption. The last commit was a month ago, no? November 6th afaict. > Is this a path we really want to go down? I'm not convinced the > cost/benefit ratio is attractive. float->text conversion is one of the major bottlenecks when backing up postgres, it's definitely a pain-point in practice. I've not really seen a nicer implementation anywhere, not even close. Greetings, Andres Freund
