#extensions
- Mini Summit Six
https://justatheory.com/2024/05/mini-summit-six/
A rough transcript of the sixth and final Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summit, in which we review potential topics for the in-person summit at PGConf.dev and discuss how to organize it.
- The History and Future of Extension Versioning
https://justatheory.com/2024/02/extension-versioning/
What versioning standard should be used for Postgres extension distribution? Some context from PostgreSQL and PGXN, a survey of the version standard landscape today, and a recommendation.
- Mini Summit Four
https://justatheory.com/2024/04/mini-summit-four/
Links, notes, and commentary from Jonathan Katz’s presentation at the fourth Postgres Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summit, “Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL”.
- Mini Summit Five
https://justatheory.com/2024/05/mini-summit-five/
Links, notes, and commentary from Yurii Rashkovskii’s presentation, “Universally Buildable Extensions: Dev to Prod,” at the fifth Postgres Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summit on May 1, 2024.
- Patch: Postgres ABI and API Guidance
https://justatheory.com/2024/06/abi-api-guidance/
Dear Postgres extension developers: Please review and give feedback on the proposed patch adding ABI and API guidance to the C language documentation.
- Extension Registry Namespacing RFC
https://justatheory.com/2024/03/extension-namespace-rfc/
A proposal for an additional level of name uniqueness for Postgres extension packaging and distribution, based on URIs.
- Mini Summit Two
https://justatheory.com/2024/03/mini-summit-two/
A rough transcript my Ian Stanton’s talk, “Building Trunk: A Postgres Extension Registry and CLI”, along with interspersed chat comments.
- PGConf & Extension Ecosystem Summit EU 2024
https://justatheory.com/2024/10/pgconf-extension-summit-eu/
Notes and links from the Extension Ecosystem Summit EU 2024 and my first time at PGConf EU. Plus thoughts and photos from ancient sites and archeological museums I visited.
- Mini Summit Three
https://justatheory.com/2024/04/mini-summit-three/
A rough transcript of my Devrim Gündüz’s talk, “Overview of {yum,zypp}.postgresql.org, and the challenges around RPMifying extensions”, along with interspersed chat comments.
- PGConf.dev 2024
https://justatheory.com/2024/06/pgconf-future-ecosystem/
At PGConf.dev, I attended some great talks, made one of my own, and enjoyed the commearderie of fellow PostgreSQL extension authors and core developers. A brief report.
- Extension Ecosystem Summit 2024
https://justatheory.com/2024/02/extension-ecosystem-summit/
Some pals and I organized a summit at PGConf.dev on May 28 to work together as a community toward comprehensive indexing, discovery, and binary distribution, as well as a speaker series “mini summit” leading up to the event.
- Mini Summit One
https://justatheory.com/2024/03/mini-summit-one/
A rough transcript of my talk “State of the Extension Ecosystem”, along with interspersed chat comments and appearances by Bagel.
- RFC: PGXN Metadata Sketch
https://justatheory.com/2024/03/rfc-pgxn-metadata-sketch/
Request for comments on a sketch of a new metadata standard for Postgres extension packaging, distribution, and delivery, building on the PGXN Meta Spec to address its shortcomings and emerging use cases 12 years on.
- ⛰️ Postgres Ecosystem Summit EU
https://justatheory.com/2024/10/postgres-ecosystem-summit-eu/
The sequel to the successful PGConf.dev event, the Extension Ecosystem Summit EU will showcases some exemplary extension use cases.
- RFC: Extension Packaging & Lookup
https://justatheory.com/2024/11/rfc-extension-packaging-lookup/
A proposal to modify the PostgreSQL core so that all files required for an extension live in a directory named for the extension, along with a search path to find extension directories.
- Contemplating Decentralized Extension Publishing
https://justatheory.com/2024/02/decentralized-extension-publishing/
The Go package ecosystem uses distributed publishing to release modules without authentication or uploads. Could we do something similar for Postgres extensions?
- 🏔 Extension Ecosystem Summit 2024
https://justatheory.com/2024/06/extension-ecosystem-summit/
A brief report on the PostgreSQL Extension Ecosystem Summit at PGConf.dev 2024 in Vancouver, Canada.
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