Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits

Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> Any volunteers out there?  It'd be a shame to not have this problem
>>>> area completely licked for 7.0.
>> 
>> Welcome to the small club, Tom.  For the first 2 & 1/2 years, the only
>> person who could tackle those big jobs was Vadim.  Now you are in the
>> club too.
>> 
>> The problem is that there are no more.  I can't imagine anyone is going
>> to be able to jump out of the woodwork and take on a job like that.  We
>> will just have to do the best job we can, and maybe save something for
>> 7.1.

> There is Jan!...
> But he's busy too -:)

> Let's wait for 7.0 beta - "big tuples" seems as work for 2 weeks...

Thing is, if Vadim could do it in two weeks (sounds about right), then
maybe I could do it in three or four (I'd have to spend time studying
parts of the backend that Vadim already knows, but I don't).  It seems
to me that some aspiring hacker who's already a little bit familiar
with backend coding could do it in a month or two, with suitable study,
and would in the process make great strides towards gurudom.  This is
a fairly localized task, if I'm not greatly mistaken about it.  And
there's plenty of time left before 7.0.  So this seems like a perfect
project for someone who wants to learn more about the backend and has
some time to spend doing so.

A year ago I didn't know a darn thing about the backend, so I'm a bit
bemused to find myself being called a member of "the small club".
Programming skills don't come out of nowhere, they come out of study
and practice.  (See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html)

In short, I'd like to see the club get bigger...
        regards, tom lane