[anarazel]

People work on the features that they either are paid to work on, or are otherwise interested in. While far from a perfect selection, there's some correlation between what companies are willing to pay people to work on in PG and what their users need.

It may turn out that your essential, and a lot of other users essential aren't exactly the same.

I worked on the JIT stuff because there was quite some concern about query speed (yes, from actual users). And after some other micro-optimizations that was the right point to attack the performance.

If you have strong feelings what you want to be worked on, you'd be more than welcome to help. Or alternatively some of the dev companies around PG certainly would appreciate business.

[b9b10eb736]

I totally upvote and agree with your comment. Thanks a lot for working on JIT, that's invaluable. We (as a community) will never thank the PG contributors enough for their work. I'd love to contribute to the postgres project, though I couldn't make it at work at the moment unfortunately. And the cost of entry is quite expensive for what I can give in my free time. I'm very sorry about this. I know well that it's always easier to complain about things rather than fixing them. Doesn't mean there's absolutely no content in it. I hope my comment did not hurt you, it was not my intention.