Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:06 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Minimalism isn't its own reward.  Obviously Tom has reason to worry 
> about the overall maintenance effort for the PostgreSQL code.  But we 
> need to balance that against the need to add features that users want 
> and will keep our community growing.

Well, minimalistic is a new compliment for me... ;-)

Every time we add code to core, the next patch just got bigger since we
must always include all aspects of the server features.

I want to *increase* the extensibility of Postgres with plugins and
APIs. When you mention what we could learn from MySQL, I would say
introduce pluggable extensibility in more places.

Solving the putting the pieces back together problem is a somewhat
easier problem than trying to maintain a whole spittoon full of (cool)
extensions in core.

Do you want Tom to
a) spend a month improving the optimizer
b) get him to review already working code so we can package things

It's a question of priorities.

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