On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:19:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Lamar Owen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:41, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > > To put it much more bluntly: PostgreSQL development (both the process > > > > > and the codebase) has one of the steepest learning curves around, > > > > > You haven't looked at the OpenOffice.org code. <wince> > > > > Yes, I have. Yes, it's steeper. > > That seems rather odd to me. I havn't really looked at the > OpenOffice.org code very much but generally I've found the PostgreSQL > code to be pretty well commented and generally well thought-out. I've > also found the acceptance, understanding and hand-holding of the > PostgreSQL developers to be *better* than I've found in other > communities (such as the Linux kernel...) that I've developed and have > had code included in.
Certainly the code is exceptionally beautiful. Anyone who has seen both Postgres' and MySQL sources can confirm that I think. Now *that* is an unreadable mess :-( > I havn't actually gotten anything real into PostgreSQL *yet*, but I've > been spending a fair bit of time on implementing support for SQL Roles > and have had alot of help developing the approach for best implementing > it (thanks Tom!) and help with stupid questions (what's a tuple?) from > a couple developers on IRC (thanks Neil! thanks Andrew!). Say, how are you doing on that front? -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>) "No es bueno caminar con un hombre muerto" ---------------------------(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