On 25/09/17 19:26, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Hernandez <a...@ongres.com> writes: >> In my opinion, logical decoding plugins that don't come with core >> are close to worthless (don't get me wrong): > >> - They very unlikely will be installed in managed environments (an area >> growing significantly). >> - As anything that is not in core, raises concerns by users. >> - Distribution and testing are non-trivial: many OS/archs combinations. > > The problem with this type of argument is that it leads directly to the > conclusion that every feature users want must be in core. We can't > accept that conclusion, because we simply do not have the manpower or > infrastructure to maintain a kitchen-sink, Oracle-sized code base. > I think we're already more or less at the limit of the feature set we can > deal with :-(. The entire point of the output-plugin design was to allow > useful replication stuff to be done outside of core; we need to make use > of that. (If that means we need better docs, then yeah, we'd better get > that part done.) >
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. -- Petr Jelinek http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
