| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OpenVMS? |
| Date: | 2010-02-16 20:52:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1266353528.12190.72.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:47 -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support
> >> for a platform that has such marginal usage.
> >
> > Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ?
>
> That's step one. Step two is community approval. Otherwise, anyone
> with an idea would be a committer.
With all respect to OpenVMS, I really can't help but ask, "why?". The
maintenance load over time will be large and I can't imagine this being
a wide use platform for us.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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> Andrew Chernow
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>
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