Re: specificity of claims (was: SEPostgres - on track?for 8.4?)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:35:13AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> I did no such thing. I simply asked if anyone was looking into
> it. There is no suggestion for anyone to go and do it if not, I just
> wanted to know if anyone was currently doing it... maybe I wanted to
> tell them to stop.

Ok, glad to have that cleared up. In the original context, this is
what I saw:

---snip---
>
> Current status of SEPostgres patch: hopeful, but not assured.
>

Someone mentioned to me that IBM and Oracle have several patents in this area,
is anyone looking into that angle?
---snip---

In my ideolect, responding to "status of patch" with "there's this
other issue, is anyone looking into it?" connotes (but does not, of
course, denote) that the speaker thinks someone _should_ look into
it. I appreciate that perhaps in your ideolect that connotation is
not present, and my apologies for misunderstanding you.

Best,

A

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