On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:17 PM Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > > On 16.09.2020 16:01, Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 02:09:11PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > >> FWIW I would like to see fewer modules in contrib rather than gaining more. > > Agreed here. > > -- > > Michael > > The intention to limit the number of contrib modules seems to be obvious > because > community will have to support all this modules. > > But it will be great to have some have some common "playground" for all > Postgres extension, so that everybody can easily > look for available extensions, check their status: which Postgres > version are supported, last update time, OS compatibility, author's > contacts... > I think that it will be enough just to have common git repository for > them + may be some rules/tools which simplify search of extensions. > > From my point of view if will be very helpful if such "PgExt Store" > will be available. > May be such resources already exists, but I do not know about them. > There is the following page: > https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/6-postgresql-extensions/ > but there are just 13 extension listed here. And I failed to add my > product in it. > > As author of several Postgres extensions, I very interesting in having > some common > database of all available Postgres extension and be able to publish my > extensions there.
That's the goal of https://pgxn.org/. The major problem is that those extensions are usually not available on the various clouds, and/or don't have the same trust level as for official contribs.
