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 ECA3F30DE1E for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:18:50 +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 71533-09 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:18:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from snoopy.oit.edu (snoopy.OIT.EDU [140.211.135.12]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B447430DC56 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:18:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from cvc.net (purvine-141-62.oit.edu [140.211.141.62]) by snoopy.oit.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/OIT-4.0) with ESMTP id h5DIIb7u031772 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:18:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3EEA164D.7060206@cvc.net> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:22:05 -0700 From: Dennis Gearon Reply-To: gearond@cvc.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Linwood Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark] References: <200306111624.h5BGOHe06484@candle.pha.pa.us> <3EE874D4.4060106@postgresql.org> <200306121149.07785.lamar.owen@wgcr.org> <3EE8B149.8080107@cvc.net> <1698096452.20030613191020@darksideofthemoon.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1698096452.20030613191020@darksideofthemoon.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200306/746 X-Sequence-Number: 43676 It is funny, but I'm an enjiineer, I what if everything! Ian Linwood wrote: > Hello Dennis, > > Thursday, June 12, 2003, 5:58:49 PM, you wrote: > > >>Bruce is one, and Tom Lane is the other. I think that Postgres's inertia is vulnerable to one of them dying. > > > ROFL > I just about drowned in my Stella when I read this. > You are a cheery chap, aren't you! ;-) > > If we all worried too much about things like this we'd be too busy > making our funeral arrangements on our mobiles to see the bus coming > around the corner! > > Sorry to poke fun, but I find it very amusing to watch how this thread > has turned to discussing the deaths of contributors to the PostgreSQL > project. >