[atombender]

I know it can exist just fine as an independent extension. I was asking more about whether you had gotten any signal that the core team was interested at all.

With software projects like these, you often have a somewhat insular core team who isn't particularly amenable to innovations that may be perceived as disruptive or "not invented here" or going against the grain, or for other reasons. With 30+ years fighting the downsides of MVCC vacuums and heap bloat you would think and hope they would be jumping at the opportunity.

The extension system is great. But extensions will always suffer from not being part of the core. For example, if you use a cloud provider like AWS and GCP, you're limited by what extensions are included, as well as their release cadence.

[kiwicopple]

We have made our intentions clear with the core team but also haven’t pushed the agenda much - it’s too early.

The conversations we have had so far are promising, we just need to make sure we approach it the right way. Projects like Oriole have started and sputtered out several times (zheap, for example). The burden first lies on our side to prove that we can see it through to GA, with meaningful usage. They (correctly) shouldn’t need to entertain the maintenance burden until they know the juice is worth the squeeze.

If it’s not accepted into core, we will work with cloud providers to add it as a supported extension

[atombender]

Fair points. Thanks!