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From: Bruce Momjian on 16 Feb 2010 15:33 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support > > for a platform that has such marginal usage. > > Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? Well, there is going to be impact on the community too --- patches, testing, etc. The community effort is small, but isn't zero. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(a)momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Andrew Chernow on 16 Feb 2010 15:47 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support >> for a platform that has such marginal usage. > > Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? That's step one. Step two is community approval. Otherwise, anyone with an idea would be a committer. -- Andrew Chernow eSilo, LLC every bit counts http://www.esilo.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: "Joshua D. Drake" on 16 Feb 2010 15:52 On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:47 -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > >> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support > >> for a platform that has such marginal usage. > > > > Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? > > That's step one. Step two is community approval. Otherwise, anyone > with an idea would be a committer. With all respect to OpenVMS, I really can't help but ask, "why?". The maintenance load over time will be large and I can't imagine this being a wide use platform for us. Joshua D. Drake > > -- > Andrew Chernow > eSilo, LLC > every bit counts > http://www.esilo.com/ > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Robert Doerfler on 16 Feb 2010 16:03 On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> >>> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support >>> for a platform that has such marginal usage. >> >> Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? > > Well, there is going to be impact on the community too --- patches, > testing, etc. The community effort is small, but isn't zero. But its totally worth it. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Chris Browne on 16 Feb 2010 16:06 rocrash(a)gmx.de (Robert Doerfler) writes: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> >>>> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support >>>> for a platform that has such marginal usage. >>> >>> Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ? >> >> Well, there is going to be impact on the community too --- patches, >> testing, etc. The community effort is small, but isn't zero. > > But its totally worth it. Do we have a patch yet? If it's small and easy, then that points to you being right. If ugly and hairy... then not so much... -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "gmail.com") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/nonrdbms.html "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed" -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
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