Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > When GIS was introduced to this list ten years ago it was criticized as > a marginal feature and huge and intrusive. But today it's probably 40% > of our user base, and growing far more rapidly than anything else with > Postgres. Maybe SE will be more like Rules than like GIS in the long > run, but there's no way for us to know that today.
What we do know is that GIS could be, and was, successfully developed outside core Postgres. It didn't need to suck away a major portion of the effort of the core developers. So it's not a very good analogy. In the end this is a debate about what the community should do with its finite development resources. Maybe, if we build this thing, they will come and we'll get so much additional contribution that it'll be a win all around. But somehow, alleged users who won't even decloak enough to tell us they want it don't seem like likely candidates for becoming major contributors. In words of one syllable: I do not care at all whether the NSA would use Postgres, if they're not willing to come and help us build it. If we tried to build it without their input, we'd probably not produce what they want anyway. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers