Re: Press Release review comments
От | Joshua D. Drake |
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Тема | Re: Press Release review comments |
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Msg-id | 4762A47A.9050206@commandprompt.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Press Release review comments (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>) |
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Re: Press Release review comments
(Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Re: Press Release review comments (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Simon Riggs wrote: > Just reading the Press Release for 8.3 > http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/press/pr/releases/8.3/en/release.txt > > Few thoughts spring to mind > > - Just in time background writer changes are nice, but since we already > mention the load distributed checkpoints (a closely related feature), it > seems we are saying too much at the expense of other features. > > - Asynch Commit is a seriously important feature, not necessarily for > existing users but definitely for people used to MySQL's speed and lack > of robustness with myisam tables. It's an important message that we can > get the speed of myisam and at the same time the robustness of Postgres. > I don't suggest that we specifically mention mysql, but it is a feature > that will alter many people's perception of Postgres, so we should talk > about it somewhere. +1 > > So I suggest we swap Just-in-time for Async Commit. > > (To forestall any negative comment, I would add: Yes, I did write that > code, but I wrote it *because* of its importance to a wide range of > people that might now consider PostgreSQL. No, I'm not asking for my > name in brackets anywhere.) > Ahh man why did you have to bring that up... No I have to take back my +1 :P > Lastly, the press contacts listed are all on the North American > continent and within a few hours of each other. Canada != U.S. I think this makes sense. > The total European market size is the roughly the same as the North > American market in terms of people, money etc. South Pacific market is > also large and probably further into open source than some parts of > Europe. It really is high time we got the idea across that open source > and Postgres, in particular, is not solely a US project. I mean no That's true. > disrespect at all to any of my fine colleagues, but the geographical > location of the chair in which we sit has very little to do with our > mission, goals, teamwork, communication channels or whatever. The same > isn't true of our external communications, which definitely are affected > by local issues, markets and definitely by timezones. > I think this is thread hi-jacking :). There are a whole lots of issues that you just brought up that are worth discussing but certainly not on this thread :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
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