Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2209F2E0201 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48233-06 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:02 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from fetter.org (start.fetter.org [66.92.188.65]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D59F2E017F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:02 -0400 (AST) Received: by fetter.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id DB382FBCDB1; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:25:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:25:00 -0800 From: David Fetter To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Richard Huxton , PostgreSQL Docs Subject: Re: FAQ on Embedding Postgres Message-ID: <20080305182500.GN19860@fetter.org> References: <200803051502.m25F2fm03349@momjian.us> <718.1204738553@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20080305174126.GM19860@fetter.org> <1029.1204739761@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1029.1204739761@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/17 X-Sequence-Number: 4829 On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:56:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter writes: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:35:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> If we need a FAQ entry on this at all, I'd stop after David's > >> first two sentences. > > > Stopping there seems like a very bad idea from a public relations > > point of view. > > Pointing to an alternative product doesn't make that any better. > What would make it better is to explain *why* we design PG this way. It's good to explain why PG does what it does how it does it, and that should be in that section of the FAQ, but continuing, even by silence, with an answer equivalent to, "We don't do that. You shouldn't either. Tough $#!+" only makes us look bad, where suggesting alternatives for the use cases we don't cover makes us look good. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate