| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih(at)nhh(dot)no>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] A small problem with the new inet and cidr types |
| Date: | 1998-11-02 23:28:24 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9811021926540.316-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Perhaps but let me point out a few things.
>
> - The code wasn't that late. Other things were holding up release
> and the inet/cidr stuff was in by the drop dead date we were given
> at the time.
No disagreement on that from here...
> - Because of a few late night coding sessions we now have a really
> cool feature and we beat the market. That's something we can use in
> our announcement. Putting this feature in, even if we pushed the
> deadline a little, didn't weaken the product, it strengthened it.
No disagreement here either...to a certain extent. What we shoudl
have done was followed our original release schedualed and looked at
getting the INET/CIDR stuff into v6.5 instead. But, hindsight is 20/20
and its in now...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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