It’s not a fork. It’s an extension. That’s both in the doc and build instructions.
That is a very appropriate way to run ahead and add experimental features that could be folded in later, even just later maintaining the extension as part of the OOB release.
It speaks to the architecture of Postgres that this is possible to implement this way.
I would love to see this be successful. Much cleaner than stacking software in front of and around Postgres, and not just a wire-compatible DB like Cockroach.
That is a very appropriate way to run ahead and add experimental features that could be folded in later, even just later maintaining the extension as part of the OOB release.
It speaks to the architecture of Postgres that this is possible to implement this way.
I would love to see this be successful. Much cleaner than stacking software in front of and around Postgres, and not just a wire-compatible DB like Cockroach.