Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your improvements of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?

The people to get in touch with are the core developers. They can
easily be reached from the PostgreSQL hackers list.

For the core team on the hackers list, here is a fascinating experiment
which has a very clever treatment via materialized views:
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/selftune/

It could benefit PostgreSQL in interesting ways.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova(at)csc(dot)ncsu(dot)edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:53 AM
> To: Dann Corbit; rada Chirkova
> Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
improvements
> of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
>
> Thanks! I will work over the summer on getting good students to do
this.
> Should I get in touch with some PostgreSQL developers other than you
to
> coordinate the effort.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rada
>
> Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> >I think that a cooperative effort between the core team of PostgreSQL
> >developers and your graduate students is definitely the most logical
> >approach.
> >
> >The PostgreSQL engine has also been updated quite a bit now with
version
> >8, and so certainly, some changes would be needed.
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova(at)csc(dot)ncsu(dot)edu]
> >>Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:53 AM
> >>To: Dann Corbit; Rada Chirkova
> >>Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
> >>
> >>
> >improvements
> >
> >
> >>of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
> >>
> >>Dear Dann Corbit,
> >>
> >>thanks for your response. I would be really delighted to contribute
to
> >>the PostgreSQL core. At the same time, I have doubts about the
quality
> >>of the implementation by my students. Do you think it would make
sense
> >>to have good students reimplement the functionalities, perhaps with
> >>
> >>
> >some
> >
> >
> >>guidance from regular PostgreSQL contributors?
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>
> >>Rada
> >>
> >>Dann Corbit wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>My name is Dann Corbit. I work for a company called CONNX
Solutions
> >>>Inc. (which is a database company -- we write middleware like
> >>>ODBC/OLEDB/JDBC/.NET drivers and things of that nature).
> >>>Here is our web site:
> >>>http://www.connx.com/
> >>>
> >>>We also happen to use PostgreSQL in some of our projects, and I
have
> >>>
> >>>
> >had
> >
> >
> >>>some minor involvement in the PostgreSQL projects. For instance,
the
> >>>PostgreSQL team used some code we wrote in creating a native
version
> >>>
> >>>
> >of
> >
> >
> >>>PostgreSQL 7.1.3 for creating the native windows version of
> >>>
> >>>
> >PostgreSQL
> >
> >
> >>>8.0.
> >>>
> >>>I read your paper on the network and downloaded the source code
that
> >>>
> >>>
> >you
> >
> >
> >>>created. It looks like a great enhancement to the PostgreSQL
> >>>
> >>>
> >database
> >
> >
> >>>system. For that reason, I was wondering if you would object to
> >>>
> >>>
> >posting
> >
> >
> >>>your changes back into the PostgreSQL 8 core so that the new
> >>>functionality is available to everyone.
> >>>
> >>>If you go and look on the PostgreSQL list server, you will see that
I
> >>>post there fairly often.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova(at)csc(dot)ncsu(dot)edu]
> >>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:10 PM
> >>>>To: Dann Corbit
> >>>>Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>improvements
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
> >>>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>could you tell me about yourself - your message was kind of brief
;)
> >>>>
> >>>>Best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>Rada
> >>>>
> >>>>Dann Corbit wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>It seems to me that your enhancements are extremely useful.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >