Andrew Dunstan <andrew.duns...@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.
regards, tom lane
