Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017

On 1/13/17 4:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jim Nasby wrote:
>> On 1/10/17 1:53 AM, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>>> 1. What project ideas we have?
>>
>> Perhaps allowing SQL-only extensions without requiring filesystem files
>> would be a good project.
>
> Don't we already have that in patch form?  Dimitri submitted it as I
> recall.

My recollection is that he tried to boil the ocean and also support 
handing compiled C libraries to the database, which was enough to sink 
the patch. It might be nice to support that if we could, and maybe it 
could be a follow-on project.

I do think complete lack of support for non-FS extensions is *seriously* 
hurting use of the feature thanks to environments like RDS and heroku. 
As Pavel mentioned, untrusted languages are in a similar boat. So maybe 
the best way to address these things is to advertise them as "increase 
usability in cloud environments" since cloud excites people.
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