Re: [HACKERS] Hi

> About a year ago, our goal was to make it more reliable. At this point,
> our goal is SQL compliance, speed, and features. See the TODO list in
> the distribution or on our web page for an idea of our open items.

Good summary Bruce. We haven't emphasized long term goals, since these
shorter-term ones don't happen overnight. In the long run, though, other
topics of advanced interest, such as storage managers, distributed databases,
logging and error recovery, more OO features, adaptation to emerging
standards (SQL3 and beyond), certainly will be pertinent.

> > 4) Are there areas/Which ares need help?
>
> What we really need are more people who can get a handle on the entire
> source tree, so we can implement some of the more complex SQL features,
> or improve some of the older code.

We have just recently gotten to the point where a very few of the current
developers have an understanding of _most_ of the backend code. Achieving
longer-term advances require that the development be planned by folks with
that level of understanding, though others can and do contribute
substantially.

Everyone starts on Postgres without understanding the code. As we do small
projects, we learn as we go and become more capable of dealing with larger
problems. Enjoy.

- Tom