[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Might it be possible to contact IBM directly and ask if they will allow > usage of the patent for PostgreSQL. They've let 500 patents for open > source, maybe they'll give a write off for this as well.
If there were hard evidence that the ARC algorithm was far better than the alternatives, it might be worth going in that direction. But there is no such evidence. Jan has retracted his original opinion that the ARC code is a big improvement over what we had before, and I haven't seen anyone else putting up benchmark numbers that say we need to keep ARC. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly