Re: List of all* PostgreSQL EXTENSIONs in the world

On 2/10/22 15:35, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:19 PM Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org> wrote:
>> I've compiled a list of all* PostgreSQL EXTENSIONs in the world:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/e5aa27f8cc9bd22b8999b7de8aee9d47
>>
>> *) It's not all, but 1041, compared to the 338 found on PGXN.
>>
>> Maybe it would be an idea to provide a lightweight solution,
>> e.g. maintaining a simple curated list of repo urls,
>> published at postgresql.org or wiki.postgresql.org,
>> with a simple form allowing missing repos to be suggested for insertion?
>
> I think a list like this is probably not useful without at least a
> brief description of each one, and maybe some attempt at
> categorization. If I want a PostgreSQL extension to bake tasty
> lasagne, I'm not going to go scroll through 1041 entries and hope
> something jumps out at me. I'm going to Google "PostgreSQL lasagne
> extension" and see if anything promising shows up. But if I had a list
> that were organized by category, I might try looking for a relevant
> category and then reading the blurbs for each one...

Agreed.

The example I really like is the R project CRAN "Task Views" for their
packages (currently the CRAN package repository has 18917 available
packages):

https://cloud.r-project.org/web/views/

Joe
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