Re: Trade Study on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

> On 25/09/2010 4:55 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> > On Friday 24. September 2010 20.04.26 Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> >> Then again, does Tom ever sleep? Maybe he sleeps in the afternoon? Or
> >> is that when he does intensive coding?
> >
> > Once there was a suggestion on this list to give Tom every other week off
> > to level the competition with the other RDBMSes.
> >
> > That being said, the PostgreSQL mail lists is an excellent and totally
> > free support channel. Speaking for myself, I've never needed any support
> > outside the mail lists. And Tom is of course a great big part of that.
>
> I couldn't agree more. I really appreciate the time and effort people
> here have spent helping out. Again, Tom Lane particularly so, for
> amazing patience, psychic debugging skills, and endless willingness to
> help anybody and everybody.

Don't omit other major contributors like Joshua or Scott... (and others I
didn't mention by name).
Certainly Tom doesn't seem to need sleep, but there's quite a few more people
willing and able to contribute and answer questions. Helped me out on more
than one occasion and I've been using postgresql long before it was named
postgresql (even back in the days when the linux kernel had a 0.9 version
number). Sure many of the current contributers weren't around back then, but
they picked up where others left off and made postgresql what it is today: a
quite viable alternative to commercial "pay lots of dollars" databases. Suffice
it to say, I have yet to see a showstopper (provided that you run postgresql
on decent hardware).

Since they just opened a beer tasting room around the corner of my home,
here's to all the active contributors - cheers. (and if any of the core
developers/contributors ever come to Santa Rosa, CA - drop me a note and I'll
have you over for a beer or wine and a nice BBQ)