On 2/14/17 2:39 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
One part of this would need to be having a designated committee of the
Postgres community pick a set of "blessed" extensions for packagers to
package. Right now, contrib serves that purpose (badly). One of the
reasons we haven't dealt with the extension
On 2/14/17 15:19, Josh Berkus wrote:
> You have to admit that it seems really strange in the eyes of a new user
> that ISN is packaged with PostgreSQL, whereas better-written and more
> popular extensions (like plv8, pg_partman or pgq) are not.
I don't know. Seems pretty standard coming from a
On 2017-02-14 12:19:56 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 12:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jim Nasby writes:
> >> First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
> >> are not technical in nature.
> >
> > What do you think "core adoption"
On 2/14/17 2:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
One part of this would need to be having a designated committee of the
Postgres community pick a set of "blessed" extensions for packagers to
package. Right now, contrib serves that purpose (badly). One of the
reasons we haven't dealt with the extension
On 02/14/2017 12:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby writes:
>> First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
>> are not technical in nature.
>
> What do you think "core adoption" means? Surely not that anything
> associated with PGXN would
On 2/14/17 2:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Jim Nasby writes:
First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
are not technical in nature.
What do you think "core adoption" means? Surely not that anything
associated with PGXN would be in the core
Jim Nasby writes:
> First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
> are not technical in nature.
What do you think "core adoption" means? Surely not that anything
associated with PGXN would be in the core distro.
> Right now contrib is
First, just to clarify: my reasons for proposing "core adoption" of PGXN
are not technical in nature. My desire is to have an extension/add-on
system that's officially endorsed and embraced by the official
community, similar to CPAN, pypy, npm, etc. There's no technical reason
we need PGXN to