Re: POC: rational number type (fractions)

On 2020-07-03 18:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 7/2/20 10:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah.  We *must not* simply give up on extensibility and decide that
>>> every interesting feature has to be in core.  I don't have any great
>>> ideas about how we grow the wider Postgres development community and
>>> infrastructure, but that certainly isn't the path to doing so.
> 
>> I've been thinking about this a bit. Right now there isn't anything
>> outside of core that seems to work well. PGXN was supposed to be our
>> CPAN equivalent, but it doesn't seem to have worked out that way, it
>> never really got the traction.
> 
> Yeah.  Can we analyze why it hasn't done better?  Can we improve it
> rather than starting something completely new?

This should probably all be in a different thread.  But yeah, I think a 
bit more analysis of the problem is needed before jumping into action.

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