Re: Extensibility of the PostgreSQL wire protocol

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:28 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> That being said, I'm not in favor of transferring maintenance work to
> the community for this set of hooks any more than I am for something
> on the parsing side. In general, I'm in favor of as much extensibility
> as we can reasonably create, but with a complicated proposal like this
> one, the community should expect to be able to get something out of
> it. And so far what I hear Jan saying is that these hooks could in
> theory be used for things other than Amazon's proprietary efforts and
> those things could in theory bring benefits to the community, but
> there are no actual plans to do anything with this that would benefit
> anyone other than Amazon. Which seems to bring us right back to
> expecting the community to maintain things for the benefit of
> third-party forks.
>

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.

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?

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Jonah H. Harris