X-Original-To: pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEB430E880 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:58:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88185-01 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:57:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [66.143.173.58]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2768230D6C8 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:57:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 75093 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Jun 2003 20:57:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:57:55 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Jan Wieck Cc: Ian Linwood Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark] Message-ID: <20030612205755.GP40542@flake.decibel.org> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net References: <3EE08D0E.9020603@Yahoo.com> <9912704157.20030606203416@darksideofthemoon.org.uk> <3EE0F5A8.6070602@Yahoo.com> <17522741330.20030609232208@darksideofthemoon.org.uk> <3EE871FC.8000206@Yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE871FC.8000206@Yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net X-Archive-Number: 200306/665 X-Sequence-Number: 43595 Quite a storm I managed to brew up here... :) I wasn't trying to insinuate that there was anything wrong with pgsql as an organization of contributors. I was only suggesting that anyone who wants to look at a sucessfully run very large open source project take a look at FBSD. As others have mentioned, there are probably improvements that could be made, but then again, there almost always are. Is it worth the disruption that the change would cause is a better question to ask. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"