Re: Extensibility of the PostgreSQL wire protocol

On 2/10/21 1:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> What I'm actually more concerned about, in this whole line of development,
> is the follow-on requests that will surely occur to kluge up Postgres
> to make its behavior more like $whatever.  As in "well, now that we
> can serve MySQL clients protocol-wise, can't we pretty please have a
> mode that makes the parser act more like MySQL".

Those requests will naturally follow. But I don't see it as the main 
project's responsibility to satisfy them. It would be rather natural to 
develop the two things together. The same developer or group of 
developers, who are trying to connect a certain client, will want to 
have other compatibility features.

As Jim Mlodgenski just posted in [0], having the ability to also extend 
and/or replace the parser will give them the ability to do just that.


Regards, Jan

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https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB_5SReoPJAPO26Z8+WN6ugfBb2UDc3c21rRz9=BziBmCaph5Q@mail.gmail.com


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Jan Wieck
Principle Database Engineer
Amazon Web Services