Re: Extensibility of the PostgreSQL wire protocol

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:42 AM Jonah H. Harris <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm quite sure I said I'd open source my MySQL implementation, which allows Postgres to appear to MySQL clients as a MySQL/MariaDB server. This is neither proprietary nor Amazon-related and makes Postgres substantially more useful for a large number of applications.

OK. There's stuff to think about there, too: do we want that in
contrib? Is it in good enough shape to be in contrib even if we did?
If it's not in contrib, how do we incorporate it into, say, the
buildfarm, so that we know if we break something? Is it actively
maintained and stable, so that if it needs adjustment for upstream
changes we can count on that getting addressed in a timely fashion? I
don't know the answers to these questions and am not trying to
prejudge, but I think they are important and relevant questions.

> As Jan said in his last email, they're not proposing all the different aspects needed. In fact, nothing has actually been proposed yet. This is an entirely philosophical debate. I don't even know what's being proposed at this point - I just know it *could* be useful. Let's just wait and see what is actually proposed before shooting it down, yes?

I don't think I'm trying to shoot anything down, because as I said, I
like extensibility and am generally in favor of it. Rather, I'm
expressing a concern which seems to me to be justified, based on what
was posted. I'm sorry that my tone seems to have aggravated you, but
it wasn't intended to do so.

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Robert Haas
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