Re: Do we want a hashset type?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Dunstan <pgsql(at)tomd(dot)cc>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we want a hashset type?
Date: 2023-06-14 14:38:19
Message-ID: b2c15c63-282b-10ca-1268-3ccd2db83567@dunslane.net
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On 2023-06-14 We 05:44, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
> The thing is, adding stuff to core is not free - it means the community
> becomes responsible for maintenance, testing, fixing issues, etc. It's
> not feasible (or desirable) to have all extensions in core, and cloud
> vendors generally do have ways to support some pre-vetted extensions
> that they deem useful enough. Granted, it means vetting/maintenance for
> them, but that's kinda the point of managed services. And it'd not be
> free for us either.

I agree it's a judgement call. But the code burden here seems pretty
small, far smaller than, say, the SQL/JSON patches. And I think the
range of applications that could benefit is quite significant.

cheers

andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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