Re: [HACKERS] Re: ORDBMS

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: ORDBMS
Date: 2000-01-31 10:32:53
Message-ID: 389564D5.1195BC3F@tm.ee
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > > I thought that the original berkeley doco covered this to some extent.
> > >
> > > Where would I find that?
> >
> > No offence intended guys, but I'm a bit shocked that you're all hacking
> > on
> > postgres without having read the design docs. The design docs are
> > extremely cool and I'd personally like to see the database return
> > to the glory days of all this cool technology, features and ideas.
> > (Hey wouldn't even mind if it went back to postquel hey hey :)
>
> Suppy and demand. We little demand for fancy features, and huge demand
> for SQL standard features.

And even bigger demand for stability and speed (in this order);)

Once we have both to some high level (which we mostly have now) the demand
for fancyness will no doubt return.

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Hannu

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