Thanks to all replies on this thread over last few days, many good point and useful contributions, thank you. [Please excuse many non-replies, since I've been ill.]
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:41 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > > - What are you working towards? Performance? Stability? X? > > X, definitely X. Thats clear then. ;-) > We're working toward PostgreSQL being indisputably the very best SQL RDBMS in > the world. Hmmm, interestingly, that is not my objective. *Most-used* is both a sufficient and eventually realisable goal for me to contribute towards. Best seems like a niche, and not always a cost-effective one. > > I think I've come to understand the answers to many of these questions, > > but these answers are not written down. When I do answer them, I try to > > make it clear that I present a personal opinion only - but that always > > gets strange looks. People really do not understand why there is no > > official answer, and take that as a black mark. > > Well, they're used to dealing with private companies and company-sponsored > projects. These things have marketing-driven agendas. We are a > non-commercial, all-volunteer OSS project. You will need to educate people > on this. Well....I'm trying, thats why I wanted all of those things written down. > > Other projects such as Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenOffice have much of this > > type of information easily available > > OpenOffice.org and Fedora are both single-company-sponsored projects, with > marketing-driven goals. I don't know about Ubuntu. OK, thats a good point. Ubuntu is single company too, and worse, it doesn't work on my laptop. > > - certainly commercial software > > vendors spend a good deal of time on providing this information. > > Yep. And commercial vendors ship releases whether or not that release is > stable or actually contains the features advertised. Hmmm. Well, companies differ, lets say that. > > Could we find a way of expressing the project philosophy in writing, so > > I can convey that message out to the world, exactly as intended, without > > any Riggs filtering? > > That's not a small order, if we want to do it right. Why don't you prepare > a Faq-ish page that covers these issues based on the responses you've > received on this thread? I can add it to the Press FAQ. OK, well I was hoping that one-of-Core, not necessarily yourself, would be the one to put pen to paper on such an issue. ...but, I guess I'll have a stab at it. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match