Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite > > whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky. > > Yeah. Bruce and I were worrying about this on the phone today. > If a company is doing some work with the intent that it's a proprietary > extension they can sell, no problem --- the BSD license is specifically > intended to let them do that. What's bothering us is the thought that > people are off in corners developing code that they think they are going > to contribute back into the community code base "after it's done". Past > history shows that the odds of getting such things accepted into the PG > community code base are *very* bad if you didn't communicate with the > community from the start of your development process. > > We'd like to avoid such unpleasant surprises, but how to get the word > out?
Well, I received a private email with most of the companies involved as CC's and many of them have made comments on the issue, so I think we can say they saw the postings on this topic. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(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
