From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: 8.5 release timetable, again |
Date: | 2009-08-25 02:15:36 |
Message-ID: | 20090825021536.GQ5896@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:02:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> >> That is a slightly alarmist. Who are we going to lose these
> >> users to?
>
> > Drizzle. MySQL forks. CouchDB. Any database which has
> > replication which you don't need a professional DBA to understand.
> > Whether or not it works.
>
> You haven't explained why we'd lose such folk next year when we
> haven't lost them already. MySQL has had replication (or at least
> has checked off the bullet point ;-)) for years. I'd be seriously
> surprised if any of the forks will offer significantly better
> replication than is there now, so the competitive situation is not
> changing in that regard.
>
> It is true that we're missing a chance to pull some folks away while
> the situation on that side of the fence is so messy. But I don't
> see our situation getting worse because of that, just not getting
> better.
"Not getting better," isn't a situation to be dismissed lightly. In
FLOSS, as I've seen it, a project whose adoption isn't growing is
dying.
Cheers,
David.
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