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To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Corporate Contributors WAS:
Date: 03 Dec 2004 14:31:01 -0500
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On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:29, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >>An example is Practical PostgreSQL. That book has been
> >>online since the day it hit shelves, free for anyone to use.
> >>But it isn't the same as say donating patches to ECPG or
> >>PlPerl which gets directly injected into the community.
> >>Practical PostgreSQL is a community resource, but it is
> >>not community sponsored.
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, PL/PHP is considered a "contribution" even though it is
> > hosted at CMD's site.
>
> Well that brings up another paradigm of course, which would be
> popularity. If I recall, plPHP was actually considered to be put into
> core but it can't be because it was a circular dependency.
>
> (You have to have the PHP source to make plPHP, that is not the case
> with plPerl or plPython).
>
I think (hope) eventually it will become a project up on pgfoundry,
built using the pgxs tech, living a lot like plr.
Robert Treat
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Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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