On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > Proprietary, secret changes to the back end, sure, but the client? > The most recent example I recall of that is Netezza, and I suspect > that they just couldn't be bothered to publish the changes they made. > At that time, the community psql client was not by any means as nice > as it is now, so it's conceivable that they made substantive > improvements, at least for talking to Netezza DBs. > >> Most have added backend features and I guess many of those have in >> turn added support to psql for those features. Sure it'd probably >> in reality be relatively harmless for them to release these psql >> modifications, but I rather doubt their management will generally >> see it that way. > > Is it really on us as a community to go long distances out of our way > to assuage the baseless[1] paranoia of people who are by and large not > part of our community?
I was under the impression that I was part of this community, and I have already said that my employer has added tab completion support, and other psql features, related to the server features we have added. Also, your statement that this is a long distance out of our way does not seem to be justified by the facts. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
