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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by UncleEntity on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:23PM (#34435103)
> Some of the features of the extension are broken because the Postgres maintainers changed something key in their Docker image…

I’m not trying to set the wrong tone here but… how hard is it to modify a docker image that is used as a fundamental part of a production system? There isn’t someone who’s job it is to wrangle these things?

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by shadowgovt on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:36PM (#34436082)
Not hard; once we knew why it broke it was easy to fix. Took half a day to figure out why it was broken though.

Key thing is: these two teams maintaining two separate Dockers aren't part of the same org, so there's no incentives to align either image to not break the other. If they were commercial entities driven by maximizing userbase or revenue, there would be reason for them to minimize breaking each other (especially if they were the same company; then someone's in charge and can tell one team or the other "Fix it or you're fired").

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