| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
| Date: | 2003-09-15 21:22:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20030915182135.D17406@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all
> > archived. Suffice to say you are simply wrong. The number of
> > complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
>
>
> I at no point suggested that there was not a need. I only suggest that
> the need may not be as great as some suspect or feel. To be honest -- if
> your arguments were the "need" that everyone had... it would have been
> implemented some how. It hasn't yet which would suggest that the number
> of people that have the "need" at your level is not as great as the
> number of people who have different "needs" from PostgreSQL.
Just to add to this ... Bruce *did* start pg_upgrade, but I don't recall
anyone else looking at extending it ... if the *need* was so great,
someone would have step'd up and looked into adding to what was already
there ...
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