Re: 10 missing features

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> In commercial development, this is where product development managers
> live.  They identify the meaning of the feature request, and then
> identify how the actual need (rather than the requested feature) can
> be addressed.

But there are also plenty of examples where this falls down. I know
for years oracle refused to release a proper package for the client
side libs. sqlplus has no command line history. Luckily there's
rlwrap for that, but that's an example where you need an external
package to make Oracle come close to what's built into pgsql. Sadly a
LOT of what a product manager is tasked with getting added to the
database is determined solely by its ability to generate more cash
flow, so often basic features like command line editing never get
done.