Re: Academic help for Postgres

On 11 May 2016 at 22:20, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> I am giving a keynote at an IEEE database conference in Helsinki next
> week (http://icde2016.fi/). (Yes, I am not attending PGCon Ottawa
> because I accepted the Helsinki conference invitation before the PGCon
> Ottawa date was changed from June to May).
>
> As part of the keynote, I would like to mention areas where academia can
> help us. The topics I can think of are:
>

[snip]

>
> Any others?
>

When publishing work, publish source code somewhere stable that won't just
vanish. And build on the latest stable release, don't build your prototype
on Pg 8.0. Don't just publish a tarball with no information about what
revision it's based on, publish a git tree or a patch series.

While academic prototype source is rarely usable directly, it can serve a
valuable role with helping to understand the changes that were made,
reproducing results, exploring further related work, etc

Include your dummy data or data generators, setup scripts, etc.

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