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There are lots of really good postgres extensions that provide features that seem generally useful for a wide audience. How often do good features from extensio
by efxhoy 4y ago
There are lots of really good postgres extensions that provide features that seem generally useful for a wide audience. How often do good features from extensions make it in to base postgres? I’m generally very wary of extensions and plugins in general and tend to just make do with what’s in the base distribution of whatever software I’m using.
- samokhvalov 4y agoNot often. And depending of what is considered as base – only the core Postgres code, or contrib modules (shipped with it and supported by community). Extension/contrib -> core is a very rare event. For example, it happened with XML type and functions originated from contrib/xml2, and with contrib/tsearch2 which became FTS in core. But it's a very rare thing. And based on just these 2 examples, you should have -2 in the name:) As for external extension becoming a contrib module, it's not a frequent event as well: - Some "1000+ PostgreSQL EXTENSIONs" list https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/e5aa27f8cc9bd22b8999b7de8aee9d47 https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/e5aa27f8cc9bd22b8999b7de8a... - Current list of contrib modules – 58 modules https://gitlab.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/contrib https://gitlab.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/contrib - Same list 10 years ago, Postgres 9.2 – 53 modules https://gitlab.com/postgres/postgres/tree/REL9_2_STABLE/contrib https://gitlab.com/postgres/postgres/tree/REL9_2_STABLE/cont...