Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:51, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I don't think it is healthy to suggest that RH will be releasing their
> own custom modifications to the PostgreSQL core server, unless you know
> something we don't. :-)

If I did know such, I couldn't tell anybody ;-). My intent wasn't to
suggest what, on a third reading, my message seems to imply. Thank you for
catching that for me, Bruce.

> All indications I have heard are that they will be submitting patches
> just like everyone else, and will be working on admin tools too. Maybe
> that is what you were referring to about a separate license.

That is what I meant, of course -- I just didn't phrase it well. Patches can
be released with a different license than the code they're patching.

However, I would be surprized if their shipped RHDB product didn't
incorporate changes that they came up with -- even if the PostgreSQL group
didn't apply them to the base dist. Although I certainly reserve the right
to be wrong. Yes, I know that may not be healthy. Yet they do it now with
the Linux kernel (their 'enterprise' kernel patches, for instance) -- why
would PostgreSQL be any different?
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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