Re: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 01 2005 ==

David Fetter wrote:

>== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 01 2005 ==
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>As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries,
>is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular
>GPL.
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Fine I can't see the difference, but have you not got to clear this
with every developer past and present to get it through.

>Tom Lane has accepted a job at MySQL AB. He announced his departure
>rather abruptly on the Hackers list yesterday:
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>>So long, suckers!
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I wonder why?

>With the change in leadership, core team members will implement
>changes to the project. One which has picked up a lot of enthusiasm
>is migrating the PostgreSQL code base away from C. Bruce Momjian
>explains, "C has served us pretty well for 20 years. But we think
>it's time to move to a more modern, and let's face it, more popular
>programming language. With the JVM testing, and the performance
>degradation, and retraining, we probably won't do any development for
>2 years, but we figure it's worth a try."
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Ok the reason, If you think you can write a database that runs
faster than a snail in Java, you need to re-think. Tom obvouly knows
this and when to jump ship. Perl or Python would be faster!!! (And I
know I've worked in them and know the only thing slower than Java is
good old paper and pencil.)

>PWN notes that the migration to Java will affect only the query
>analyzer, executor, and storage engine. The client tools will be
>re-written in COBOL.
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Could that sentance please be reversed I could understand the client
tools being written in Java (just about) Cobol can more than cope with a
database, its older than C,

>A new language translation set of .po files for into 1337. w3lc0m3 t0
>t|-|3 n3\/\/ /\/\3/\/\|3rz 0f teh c0mm|_|n1t'/!!1!!
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Either this message is a joke, Or you have all gone mad?
I see a postpostgres on the horizon.

Peter Childs

>== PostgreSQL Product News ==
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>PL/APL procedural language project launched
>http://www.pgfoundry.org/projects/plapl
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>Bricolage 1.8.7.2.9.11.0.6.201.7a released.
>http://www.bricolage.cc/news/announce/changes/bricolage-1.8.7.2.9.11.4.6.201.7a/
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