Re: PostgreSQL 13: native JavaScript Procedural Language support ?

Thanks Tom, that makes sense. Appreciate your time to explain the context.

I'll followup with Heroku.

Have a peaceful day,
Marius

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:50 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Marius Andreiana <marius(dot)andreiana(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > How about enabling users to do more advanced processing of JSON
> > data inside the database itself, using JavaScript?
> > There's the PLV8 extension https://github.com/plv8/plv8
> > but it's not available for many major db providers (eg Heroku), making it
> > hard to adopt it. Having it supported in the standard PostgreSQL
> > distribution, besides the existing 4 languages (
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/xplang.html), would be awesome!
>
> The core Postgres project doesn't have unlimited resources --- in fact,
> most of the time we feel desperately short of qualified developers.
> So we're not eager to pick up the maintenance burden for extensions
> that seem to be doing perfectly well on their own. (The extensions
> that do exist within the core distribution are largely there to make
> sure we don't break extensibility by accident.)
>
> Even if we did that, it would not automatically translate to downstream
> packagers enabling the feature; they might not want the additional
> dependencies.
>
> So the right thing for you to do is to lobby Heroku to include PLV8
> in their offering. You'd have to convince them to support it in
> any case.
>
> regards, tom lane
>