Re: Proposal to add --single-row to psql

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:08:28PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > I believe that makes it significantly harder for them to actually
> > contribute code back that doesn't give them a business advantage, as
> > well as making it harder to justify hacking on the community
> > codebase because they'll just face a very large hurdle when it comes
> > to pulling that code back into their proprietary product.
> >
> > I don't know of any good way to solve that problem. Maybe it's not
> > worth solving... but I do suspect there's some useful stuff that the
> > community has lost out on because of this.
>
> Some of this is getting solved by making PostgreSQL more pluggable in
> ways that isolate the proprietary stuff, i.e. make people not have to
> touch the PostgreSQL core code much, if at all, in order to provide
> whatever special features they provide. Hooks and FDWs are two such
> pluggable components.
>
Extensions and the lovely background workers as well.
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Michael