Re: Built-in plugin for logical decoding output

On 26 September 2017 at 01:48, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> On 09/25/2017 10:43 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-25 10:38:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/25/2017 10:32 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 25/09/17 19:26, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alvaro Hernandez <aht(at)ongres(dot)com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> There is already about 3 million output plugins out there so I think we
>>>> did reasonable job there. The fact that vast majority of that are
>>>> various json ones gives reasonable hint that we should have that one in
>>>> core though.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And I am sure that 2ndQuadrant would be happy to add it to their version
>>> of
>>> Postgres and maintain it themselves.
>>>
>>> https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/2ndqpostgres/
>>>
>>
>> This doesn't seem like a good way to argue.
>>
>>
> Sorry, that wasn't supposed to be negative. My point was that 2ndQuadrant
> has a distribution of Postgres that they support.

For what it's worth, it's mostly things that didn't make it into core for a
release, things that got knocked back, backports, etc.

I for one don't want to carry a big delta from core.

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