Re: ARC patent

From: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ARC patent
Date: 2005-01-17 08:04:49
Message-ID: 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE56231@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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> > FYI, IBM has applied for a patent on ARC (AFAICS the patent
> > application is still pending, although the USPTO site is a
> little hard to grok):
>
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040098541%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040098541&RS=DN/20040098541

How will this affect the release of 8.0?

Wasn't this implemented in the early stages of the 7.5 cycle, long before may 20?

... John

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