From: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Google SoC--Idea Request
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:25:32 -0400
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On 4/15/06, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> wrote:
> Doing the latter is a precondition for implementing the former in a
> reasonable way, I believe.
> BTW, these two web log entries summarizing Mono and Mozilla's
> experiences with SoC might make interesting reading:
Thanks for the reading material. I don't think our project is exactly
the same, but it's good information to keep in mind.
> Given the above, I would be wary of such projects bit-rotting. If the
> upstream project hasn't bothered to add PostgreSQL support, there might
> be a good reason why: writing truly database-agnostic applications is
> not always easy (or even desirable).
This isn't always the case. In a lot of cases, the developers just
wanted to take the easy route and used MySQL... they have a lot of
people asking for PostgreSQL support but they don't have the expertise
to add it themselves.
--
Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732.331.1324
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