On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 21:12:18 +0100,
Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I guess what I'm saying is it's not how many people you've got working
> on the optimizer, its how many accurate field reports of less-than
> perfect optimization reach them. In that case, PostgreSQL is likely in a
> better position than Microsoft, since the accessibility of the pg
> discussion lists makes such cases much more likely to get aired.
>
> Any thoughts?
I have seen exactly this happen a number of times over the last several
years. However there is still only one Tom Lane implementing the
improvements.