Re: Postgresql and multithreading

Let me add one more thing on this "thread". This is one email in a long
list of "Oh, gee, you aren't using that wizz-bang new
sync/thread/aio/raid/raw feature" discussion where someone shows up and
wants to know why. Does anyone know how to address these, efficiently?

If we discuss it, it ends up causing a lot of effort on our part for the
requestor to finally say, "Oh, gee, I didn't realize that." It isn't
our job to explain that wizz-bang isn't always great. Maybe that should
be our reply, "Wizz-bang isn't always great" and leave it at that. Of
course, some will leave thinking we are just idiots, but then again, it
takes one to know one. It is sort of like walking into a chess match
and asking Bobby Fisher why he didn't move that pawn. :-)

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Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:40:47PM +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> > > And a minor question is wheter it is legal to keep the _changes_ in such
> > > a project GPL?
> >
> > Do you mean 'relicence the forked copy'?
>
> Nope. To keep the `original' code licence as it is and to release the
> changes GPL? Is the question sane at first place?
>
> Anuradha
>
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