From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Chris Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: The Business Case for PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2007-06-19 00:57:44 |
Message-ID: | 36e682920706181757m5103735fvcdefd2d839800a3c@mail.gmail.com |
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On 6/17/07, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
> Implementing complex statistical functions tends to be, behind the
> scenes, a pretty Simple Matter Of Programming. The formulae may look
> nasty, but the computations are usually not all that bad, once
> understood.
Agree.
> In contrast, I have to call replication a "pretty exotic" feature.
> And I don't think implementing replication is particularly easy,
> either. The challenges with multimaster are legion...
Definitely agree.
> "From the outset, PostgreSQL was constructed to meet the goals of
> active businesses which could rely on it as a core element of their
> mission-critical IT infrastructure."
>
> Nope. At the outset, it was constructed as a research project. When
> it became an OSS project, I'm not sure those were yet the goals.
Agree completely.
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