Re: SAPDB Open Souce

I see one of my mistakes here. The person clearly said "you have to
make it with SAP's proprietary build tools/environment." I didn't
realize you need the build tools/environment to meaningfully view the
code. Of course, as someone else stated, the build tools/environment
have been open-sourced.

Can someone confirm that the build tools/environment makes the code
easier to understand? That would be good, and make it easier for us to
learn from it.

> I have attached the original message and my reply. The person was
> asking how we could used SAP "to see what postgres can learn". My reply
> was to say that I couldn't figure how how to learn anything from the
> code. That was my only statement.
>
> I did not trash SAP DB. Seems using their development tools may make
> the code much easier to understand. Hopefully someone will try.
>
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> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I've used the open source SAPDB and the performance is pretty damned
> > > impressive. However, 'open source' in application to it is somewhat
> > > deceptive, since you have to make it with SAP's proprietary build
> > > tools/environment.
> > >
> > > In my opinion, however, it would be worth closely auditing SAP DB to see
> > > what postgres can learn.
> >
> > I downloaded it. The directories are two characters in length, the
> > files are numbers, and it is a mixture of C++, Python, and Pascal. Need
> > I say more. :-)
>
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