>>>"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>wrote:
>
>> This reply is wholly inappropriate for a Pg list. We are here to
>> help people. If you have a consultancy, please feel free to list
>> that but any discussion of rates is just plain rude. Please use
>> better discretion in the future.
>>
>
> Perhaps. Though, I only posted because you made it sound somewhat
> impossible and because I only know of a few ppl in the PG community
> that offer it and/or have done is successfully. Maybe letting
> people know there are options, other than being screwed, is wrong...
> my bad :-)
That really sounded disingenuous.
It would probably be appropriate to point out that there are numerous
sources of professional support for PostgreSQL.
http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support
As someone who ran a consulting business for 25 years and has been on
both sides of the calls for assistance on recovery from database
problems (and currently not in that business, so I have no ax to grind
here), that post was inappropriate for the list. I don't think anyone
would fault you (or anyone else) for making a polite offer of
assistance off-list, as long as you quietly bow out if they're not
interested; but anybody who is a professional in this business should
know better than to post that to the list. There are several reasons,
and they should be obvious.
-Kevin