Re: add column sillyness

sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com says...

> > But that didn't stop you actually making an (untrue) statement about it!

> What statement?

This statement I had no problem with - I could have jumped in and
answered "Yes, you can".

> Could I get the same kind of support (basically an answer to
> any question within 24 hours from one of the actual postgres
> developers) with firebird that I can get here?

Then in reply to his own question, he says

> I doubt it.

He admitted later that he didn't know, which is fair enough. My point
however would be that if one doesn't know, one should refrain from
making remarks either way, especially bad (giving the benefit of the
doubt is better IMHO).

> That he doubted it? Given that he was admittedly not an
> expert on the issue (since he was asking about firebird), I think acting
> like he was making a statement of fact is reaching. At best I'd say it
> was an implication, and from his followup it's obvious that he didn't
> intend it that way.

OK, OK, I'm not accusing the guy of a major crime or anything. I'm an
Interbaser/Freebirder, and it does annoy me that somebody would
automatically make the disparaging assumption, rather than the good one,
much the same way here I see people giving out about MySQL's greater
exposure despite being an inferior product, and who give out (rightly)
about the troll who started this thread or people who think that the
*_only_* serious database out there is Oracle.

I'll just leave this thread here I think - suffice to say that I am
slowly trying to immerse myself in PostgreSQL, and I think that your
support setup here is second to none! It's better than Firebird's at the
moment, because I think that mailing lists stink and I really *_really_*
appreciate that you have a newsgroup mirror which threads well at
news.gmane.org.

I tried to get the Firebird lists onto it, but the admins didn't want to
be mirrored - don't ask me why. The result of this bizarre policy is
that I've posted far far less about Interbase than about PostgreSQL, a
subject about which I know infinitely less - mostly in discussion type
threads - I don't present myself as a guru - at least not yet! 8-)

Paul...

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