Re: Article about upcoming 8.3 release: Full of wrong info.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Article about upcoming 8.3 release: Full of wrong info.
Date: 2007-08-31 15:32:22
Message-ID: 20070831153222.GC8046@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Devrim GNDZ wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This article is pretty annoying:
> >
> > http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201803375&subSection=News
> >
> > I was expecting Bruce not to mention about:
> >
> > * PL/SQL debugger (sir, we don't *have* PL/SQL in *our* database!)
> > * Clustering software from Skype (it is just a pgfoundry project, not a
> > core addition)
> > * SEPostgreSQL - It is a GSoC project. It is not even in pgfoundry.
> >
> > I disliked these a lot.
>
> Yes, I think there are quite a few problems in that article. The bad
> news is that I didn't mention any of these to the author, and certainly
> not in any detail, so we have to find out who did and have them contact
> the author, or the author found out himself somehow.

The really bad news is that the article does not mention any of the
improvements we did for 8.3, so it sounds like it is a rather pointless
release.

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Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 18.1", W 73º 13' 56.4"
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