Re: Berkeley DB license

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB license
Date: 2000-05-16 17:52:03
Message-ID: 200005161752.NAA17712@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael A. Olson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Rather than replacing just the storage manager, you'd be replacing
> > > > the access methods, buffer manager, transaction manager, and some
> > > > of the shared memory plumbing with our stuff.
> > >
> > > So, basically, we rip out 3+ years or work on our backend and put an SQL
> > > front-end over top of BerkleyDB?
> >
> > Now, no one is suggesting we do this. The issue is exploring what gains
> > we could make in doing this.
>
> Definitely ... I'm just reducing it down to simpler terms, that's all :)

I am glad you did. I like the fact we are open to re-evaluate our code
and consider code from outside sources. Many open-source efforts have
problems with code-not-made-here.

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