Re: Proposal of new PostgreSQL Extension - PGSpiderExt

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal of new PostgreSQL Extension - PGSpiderExt
Date: 2020-09-18 22:42:25
Message-ID: 20200918224224.GD30016@momjian.us
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 05:40:30PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> May be I am wrong, but it seems to me that not so much people know about
> pgxn.org
> Before writing this mail I have tried to locate such resource in Google and
> didn't succeed.
>
> yes, It is not strongly joined with the Postgres community, and it doesn't
> deploy binary (compiled) code if I know it. So for some people it is not
> usable.
>
> But anytime this and similar repositories will have problems, because the
> extensions there are not reviewed, nobody did security check, nobody did QA.
>
> This is useful for Postgres developers, for very advanced users, or for very
> fearless users :).

I think if PGXN had more must-have extensions, its popularity would
increase.

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