| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse(at)bloodgate(dot)com>, Suraj Kharage <suraj(dot)kharage(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: backup manifests |
| Date: | 2020-01-14 18:33:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20200114183312.GF32763@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:53:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > ... I would also expect that depending on an external package
> > would provoke significant opposition. If we suck the code into core,
> > then we have to keep it up to date with the upstream, which is a
> > significant maintenance burden - look at all the time Tom has spent on
> > snowball, regex, and time zone code over the years.
>
> Also worth noting is that we have a seriously bad track record about
> choosing external packages to depend on. The regex code has no upstream
> maintainer anymore (well, the Tcl guys seem to think that *we* are
> upstream for that now), and snowball is next door to moribund.
> With C not being a particularly hip language to develop in anymore,
> it wouldn't surprise me in the least for any C-code JSON parser
> we might pick to go dead pretty soon.
Given jq's extreme popularity and compatible license, I'd nominate that.
Best,
David.
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