Re: Partitioning wiki page

Hi,

> At the moment, all you've done is show examples of how Oracle does
>> partitioning and restate my requirements document, significant chunks
>> completely verbatim. If you do that I think it fair to ask for a
>> specific credit on that. But even so, thank you for the compliment.
>>
>> It was not my intention to steal your work but to put together
> everything that was produced so far. I tried to put in the links
> section, references to all documents I have consulted so far. I thought
> this was a collective work and therefore did not ask for specific credit
> for everyone that participated on the mailing list. As you can also
> notice, I did not claim any credit nor put my name on the wiki page. I
> am just trying to help the community.
> If you think that every contribution should acknowledge its original
> author, I can add a bibliography and put references but this will make
> the page harder to maintain.
>

Simon, if you look at the other current discussions on partitioning,
Emmanuel has mentioned your document a number of times (crediting you
directly via that). He had even specificly asked if it was ok to use your
document and export it to the wiki. I think its great that he has started up
this wiki page and taken on the responsibility to maintain and move this
forward.

> Regarding the current syntax, it is not just a copy paste of Oracle but
> a merge between Oracle and MySQL. I have not looked yet at other
> products being new to the datawarehouse world. As I mentioned there is
> still a lot of work to do and I will try to integrate feedback as we go.
>

Yes we have to have some syntax and even to me the Oracle, Mysql (which I
think is completely inspired from the Oracle syntax) seemed a good starting
point. Even the grammar presented here in this thread was similar:

http://www.nabble.com/Declarative-partitioning-grammar-td14767382.html

Also, I have been thinking that we might collect all different proposals on
the wiki but what is the next step? Maybe when people meet up at PGCon or
other developers meets, they should have a specific agenda to take stock of
the current discussions and decide on one approach to move ahead.

Regards,
Nikhils
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