From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution? |
Date: | 2008-07-22 22:15:10 |
Message-ID: | 1216764910.3894.513.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant |
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On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:06 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Minimalism isn't its own reward. Obviously Tom has reason to worry
> about the overall maintenance effort for the PostgreSQL code. But we
> need to balance that against the need to add features that users want
> and will keep our community growing.
Well, minimalistic is a new compliment for me... ;-)
Every time we add code to core, the next patch just got bigger since we
must always include all aspects of the server features.
I want to *increase* the extensibility of Postgres with plugins and
APIs. When you mention what we could learn from MySQL, I would say
introduce pluggable extensibility in more places.
Solving the putting the pieces back together problem is a somewhat
easier problem than trying to maintain a whole spittoon full of (cool)
extensions in core.
Do you want Tom to
a) spend a month improving the optimizer
b) get him to review already working code so we can package things
It's a question of priorities.
--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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