A field report on the PostgreSQL extension ecosystem: 1,617 discovered projects, 511 deliverable extensions, and the shared delivery layer needed to make extensibility work for users, authors, vendors, and PostgreSQL hackers.
Its maintainer, under pressure to make a living, has formally archived pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL ecosystem’s most important backup tool. The entire PostgreSQL community needs to think seriously about how critical open-source dependencies can be sustained.
