On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ron Mayer <rm...@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Sorry, I've been a bit distracted by other responsibilities (libtiff >>> security issues for Red Hat, if you must know). I'll get on it shortly. >> >> What? You have other things to do besides hack on PostgreSQL? Shocking! >> :-) > > I suspect you're kidding, but in case some on the list didn't realize, > Tom's probably as famous (if not moreso) in the image compression > community as he is in the database community: > > http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg/index.html > "Probably the largest and most important contribution however was the work > of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom Lane in particular." > > http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Credits.html , http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/ > "PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification > Version 1.0 > ... > Contributing Editor > Tom Lane, t...@sss.pgh.pa.us" > > http://www.fileformat.info/format/tiff/egff.htm > "... by Dr. Tom Lane of the Independent JPEG Group, a member of the > TIFF Advisory Committee"
Yes, I was joking, hence the smiley. I did know he was involved in the above, although I confess I didn't know to what degree... or that he had a doctorate. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
