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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
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
Message-ID: <1102102261.2441.338.camel@camel> (raw)
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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
-- 
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL





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