Re: Question about an Extension Project - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: Question about an Extension Project
Date
Msg-id 78e5174e-fe5c-2e48-27cb-4f655eada2af@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Question about an Extension Project  (A Z <poweruserm@live.com.au>)
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

I don't want to sound overly rude, but I suggest not spamming this list 
with the same message when you don't get an answer right away. If no one 
answered the first time, they're not going to answer the second time.

Providing a quote usually requires some sort of a business relationship, 
and I doubt people on this list will rush to do that when the person is 
entirely anonymous, without any prior history in the community, etc.


As for the technical side, I only quickly skimmed the specification, and 
it's entirely unclear to me

(a) Why? What's the whole point of the proposed extension, and why e.g. 
pgmp is not suitable to achieve that.

(b) What? Are the proposed data types & aritmetics a completely new 
thing, or is that already implemented somewhere? I doubt people on this 
list will be interested in inventing entirely new ways to do math (as 
opposed to using a library that already exists).


regards

On 9/3/21 10:17 AM, A Z wrote:
> To who it may concern,
> 
> I am trying to get a project completed to enhance PostgreSQL arithmetic 
> and elementary functions
> prowess by means of two new High Precision mixed decimal number types in 
> a self installing
> extension.  Hopefully, I want this to be a free or low cost project.
> 
> Is there anyone who can read these project specifications and email back to
> me here, at poweruserm@live.com.au, to give me a quote for this project?
> They are in my top posting at this discussion thread, at:
> 
> https://github.com/dvarrazzo/pgmp/issues/22
> 
> The extension could be called HPPM, High Precision Postgresql 
> Mathematics.  It is
> to be written in C, and will need a number of offline installers for 
> major operating
> systems, like Windows 10/11 or rpm based Linux. The project could be 
> hosted on SourceForge
> or GitHub.
> 
> If anyone on this list is interested, or knows which direction to point 
> me in,
> could they please reply to me here, at poweruserm@live.com.au?
> 
> 
> ZM.

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Tomas Vondra
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