Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding

On 6 Mar 2016 8:27 p.m., "Peter Geoghegan" <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yeah, I agree with that. I am utterly mystified by why Bruce keeps
> > beating this drum, and am frankly pretty annoyed about it. In the
> > first place, he seems to think that he invented the idea of using FDWs
> > for sharding in PostgreSQL, but I don't think that's true. I think it
> > was partly my idea, and partly something that the NTT folks have been
> > working on for years (cf, e.g.,
> > cb1ca4d800621dcae67ca6c799006de99fa4f0a5). As far as I understand it,
> > Bruce came in near the end of that conversation and now wants to claim
> > credit for something that doesn't really exist yet and, to the extent
> > that it does exist, wasn't even his idea.
>
> I think that it's easy to have the same idea as someone else
> independently. I've had that happen several times myself; ideas that
> other people had that I felt I could have easily had myself, or did in
> fact have. Most of the ideas that I have are fairly heavily based on
> known techniques. I don't think that I've ever creating a PostgreSQL
> feature that was in some way truly original, except perhaps for some
> aspects of how UPSERT works.

Everything is a remix.

Thom