Re: Your RDBMS Survey ...

From: GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net>
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Subject: Re: Your RDBMS Survey ...
Date: 2000-12-04 05:06:20
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:31:06AM -0400, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
>
> A couple of days ago, one of our brethren noticed and pointed us to your
> survey asking which RDBMS we prefered/were using ... pride in our choice
> prompted alot of us to pop over to your site and register our vote
> ... when I put mine in, the results were at something like 1461 for PgSQL
> and now they are down to 510 ...

\begin{Devils Advocate}
Maybe they are attempting to compensate for a spike in the number of
votes in favor of Postgres. Was there a group of votes from a single ip
or some such?
\end{Devils Advoate}

do
{
sleep();
} while(tired())

gh

>
> one of our brethren has seen it be reset back to 450 at least twice so far
> ...
>
> I'm curious ... is this survey supposed to have any accuracy to it, or are
> the results fixed? *raised eyebrow*
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
>

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