Re: Built-in plugin for logical decoding output

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Alvaro Hernandez <aht(at)ongres(dot)com> wrote:

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> On 25/09/17 20:18, Andres Freund wrote:
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>> On 2017-09-24 13:36:56 +0300, Alvaro Hernandez wrote:
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>>> However, if DMS uses it for what I'd call production use, I assume
>>> it is
>>> actually production quality. I bet they do enough testing, and don't ship
>>> software to potentially millions of customers if it doesn't work well.
>>> So...
>>> first, I'd consider this a a sign of robustness.
>>>
>> You've been in software for how long? ... ;) There's quite mixed
>> experiences with DMS.
>>
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> Actually long enough to understand that if someone "big" calls it
> production quality, we should not be pickier and assume it is --whether it
> is or not. People will accept it as such, and that's good enough.
>

Historically the fact that we have been pickier than many of the "someone
big":s is exactly how we ended up with the codebase and relative stability
we have today.

Just because someone is big doesn't mean they know what's right. In fact,
more often than not the opposite turns out to be true.

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