| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Medi Montaseri <medi(at)cybershell(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ian Harding <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, dean(at)tmdt(dot)com(dot)tw |
| Subject: | Re: [Fwd: MS SQL compatible functions] |
| Date: | 2002-02-07 03:06:36 |
| Message-ID: | 200202070306.g1736ag01486@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Or it lacks priority.....on another thread a caller is asking for Distributed
> PG
> so he can install 20 linux boxes instead of an IBM 390 or Sun E10k
>
> PG and Ingress have always been more popular in the academic world, why
> not channel our energy in that area. Just imagine, a good distributed OS
> (linux),
> a good distributed DB (DPG) and a good distributed HTTP (apache, soap) and
> we have lift off.
No question is is important. It actually isn't the lack of excitement
which is the problem, it is really the lack of challenge and the fact it
is tedious to mimick another database.
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