On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Heikki Linnakangas < heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Because that's what a respectable business does when a customer runs into a > bug with software they sell. It's not a bug, it's expected behavior. Not that I think it couldn't be better handled. I'm not trying to dig at this, but looking at it in terms of flexibility, rather than us change the way we display a port in the ps-line because it may break a couple hundred scripts, you seem to think it's more reasonable for a company with a product utilized by millions of users, installed in countless governments, and deployed in mission-critical areas, to risk changing a fairly mature and well-tested behavior because it affects fewer than 1% of its users per year; specifically, users who are trying to interoperate with a competing database? If it were my business, it doesn't seem like something I would put much effort into :) Whether or not they actually will fix it, I don't know, but they surely > won't if no-one complains them about it. Wouldn't hurt :) -- Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA myYearbook.com
