Re: Postgresql Materialized views

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Sean Utt wrote:
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>> As Joshua Drake has pointed out before, most of the core people 
>> working on PostgreSQL don't actually use it for anything themselves. I 
>> will expand a little on that and say that this means that while they 
>> are extremely good at what they do, they really don't have a clue what 
>> might be useful to someone "in the wild". Sort of like automotive 
>> engineers who in the 1970's made the Cadillac's engine so large that 
>> you couldn't change the spark plugs without taking the motor mounts 
>> loose and lifting the engine.
>>
>>
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> This is both gratuitously offensive and based on a demonstrably false 
> premise. The definition of "core people working on PostgreSQL" is 
> somewhat vague. But if you were to take it as, say, the group of active 
> committers, then I would say that the majority of us earn our living in 
> whole or in part using PostgreSQL. Certainly I do (there's a reason I 
> use an elephant logo for my business).

The consideration of my comment (which I believe was made some time ago) 
was not about -hacking which as I understand it is what you and most 
everyone else on -hackers does. My comment was a consideration to the 
amount of "core" that are managing postgresql in a production 
environment. E.g; being DBAs. I would argue that very few committers 
actually qualify as that either. Feel free to prove me wrong :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake