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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:25:32 -0400
From: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Neil Conway" <neilc@samurai.com>
Subject: Re: Google SoC--Idea Request
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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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