Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Sean Utt wrote:
As Joshua Drake has pointed out before, most of the core people
working on PostgreSQL don't actually use it for anything themselves. I
will expand a little on that and say that this means that while they
are extremely good at what they do, they really don't have a clue what
might be useful to someone "in the wild". Sort of like automotive
engineers who in the 1970's made the Cadillac's engine so large that
you couldn't change the spark plugs without taking the motor mounts
loose and lifting the engine.
This is both gratuitously offensive and based on a demonstrably false
premise. The definition of "core people working on PostgreSQL" is
somewhat vague. But if you were to take it as, say, the group of active
committers, then I would say that the majority of us earn our living in
whole or in part using PostgreSQL. Certainly I do (there's a reason I
use an elephant logo for my business).
The consideration of my comment (which I believe was made some time ago)
was not about -hacking which as I understand it is what you and most
everyone else on -hackers does. My comment was a consideration to the
amount of "core" that are managing postgresql in a production
environment. E.g; being DBAs. I would argue that very few committers
actually qualify as that either. Feel free to prove me wrong :)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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