Re: POC: rational number type (fractions)

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 7/1/20 7:00 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> ... extensions outside of PG simply don't thrive as independent projects.
> >>
> >> There's various potential reasons for that, from being hard to find, to
> >> being hard to install and work with, to the fact that we don't have a
> >> centralized extension system (PGXN isn't really endorsed at all by
> >> core... and I don't really think it should be), and our general
> >> extension management system isn't particularly great anyway.
>
> > Then these are things we should fix. But the right fix isn't including
> > every extension in the core code.
>
> 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 don't see where I was either proposing that we give up extensibility,
or that we have to include every extension in the core code.

Thanks,

Stephen