From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] RI status report #2 |
Date: | 1999-09-30 15:46:01 |
Message-ID: | 37F385B9.91BDA5F8@wgcr.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Lamr Owen wrote:
> > And that surprises you?? Even in the short two years I've used
> > PostgreSQL, I have grown accustomed to major changes every major
[snip]
> Yes, it still shocks me. I was telling Thomas, every release I think,
> man, this is so great, no reason anyone should be using a prior release.
> And then the next release is the same thing.
>
> The basic issue for me is that each of the new features requsted looks
> so hard, I can't imagine how it could be done, but by release time, it
> does get done. Amazing.
I find the enthusiasm of this particular development quite infectious.
While I'm only doing a very small part in packaging RPM's (thus far), I
feel quite good about it (it conjures back the same feeling that I had
at 15 years old when my Z80 disassembler first correctly disassembled
the opcodes of three-quarters of the instruction set -- no operands at
that time, but the opcode logic was WORKING... It felt uniquely
gratifying).
Just reading the web page and the release notes doesn't do this
development justice -- until I subscribed to this hackers list, I had no
idea that PostgreSQL development was so dynamic.
This beats following the linux kernel development, IMO.
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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