Robert,
> personally if someone does know that there is a patent, i'd rather we heard
> about it before we put the code in than after.
90% of granted patents are invalid. And *nobody* on our mailing lists is
capable of judging validity *or* infringement.
So you, Robert, are basically encouraging people to troll our lists with
spurious patent issues. Please stop it, right now.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco