This is cool, but this sort of proves my point to friends that Postgres isn't "production ready" out of the box, you need all kinds of tooling around it to make it so.
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#22Why would you ever want that many extensions?
Imagine a realm where a myriad of extensions can freely interlace, conjuring a synergy where 1+1 transcends 2 within the PostgreSQL ecosystem.
Given that all extensions are optional, bundling them all together poses no harm to the stability of the core part.
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#23Can't say I'm following the Why? entirely. Is this intended as a prototyping tool?
Supabase and PostgresML have been introduced in the latest release. At this juncture, they are in a prototype stage, aiming to expand the functionalities' spectrum.
The RDS part and most extensions have served as production tools for us for a long time.
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#24Interesting, but unless you understand every piece of software running and how they interact and are deployed, running this sounds like a devops and security nightmare.
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#25I have never needed to use 95% of these extensions. Why would someone want to install all of them by default? Update nightmare.
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#27Isn't PostgreSQL Opensource?
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#28HN title notwithstanding, this is a distribution of PostgreSQL (i.e. many optional extensions built in), not an “alternative”. Also, both PostgreSQL and this alternate bundle are indeed Open Source.
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#29Isn't PostgreSQL Opensource?
It’s an RDS alternative, aka managed operations service for postgresql and a curated and extensive catalog of optional pg extensions. The title should be fixed as its misleading.