On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some of this is getting solved by making PostgreSQL more pluggable in
>> ways that isolate the proprietary stuff, i.e. make people not have to
>> touch the PostgreSQL core code much, if at all, in order to provide
>> whatever special features they provide. Hooks and FDWs are two such
>> pluggable components.
>
> Extensions and the lovely background workers as well.
Some kind of extendable parser would be awesome. It would need to tie
into the rewriter also.
No, I don't have a clue what the design looks like.
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