| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Hope Ho" <ho(dot)hope(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: modularity of PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2008-01-18 13:10:01 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920801180510g4053590dv4c413a21eaee4c44@mail.gmail.com |
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On Jan 18, 2008 8:09 AM, Jonah H. Harris <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 6:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Uh, does anyone authoritative describe it that way? I think we can
> > legitimately claim that Postgres is pretty extensible, but as for
> > modularity I'm not sure that it's got any great claim to fame.
> > To me modularity connotes an emphasis on dividing the system into
> > pieces separated by carefully-defined, small-footprint interfaces,
> > and we have not done spectacularly well on that score.
>
> Agreed. Postges is extensible, not modular.
s/ges/gres/g
no coffee yet :(
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