Re: Favorite Tom Lane quotes

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
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>> We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly):
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>> We don't support that, but you're free to try it, you just get to keep
>> both pieces if it breaks.
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> Hate to disillusion you, but that's a standard comment around Red Hat.
> I have no idea who said it first, but twasn't me.
>
i took this off Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_(Open_Source_Software_Developer)

On idiotic benchmark comparisons "Try to carry 500 people from Los
Angeles to Tokyo in an F-15. No? Try to win a dogfight in a 747. No? But
they both fly, so it must be useful to compare them... especially on the
basis of the most simplistic test case you can think of. For extra
points, use *only one* test case. Perhaps this paper can be described as
"comparing an F-15 to a 747 on the basis of required runway length