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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Chris Travers <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:26:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


We have a novice list already.

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Chris Travers wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >And more support questions get asked taking time away from development.
> >For companies the net balance is probably in postgres' favor on average.
> >However, getting individuals to use postgres who have no background
> >in databases may be a net minus. Hopefully that won't happen. It will
> >be interesting to see what happens to the support lists after the
> >windows port is available.
> >  
> >
> I don't see support questions as being that much of a detractor.  Maybe 
> if it happens, we can start a Pgsql-newbie's list and initially feature 
> those who provide commercial support for the RDBMS?  Understand that 
> everyone has to start somewhere, and having a fresh perspective on it 
> from a newbie may help make a better project.  We just need a little 
> more insulation between newbie support and development (though the lack 
> of such insulation is a general strength of open source software).
> 
> I personally think that the way to do this is to create a good set of 
> documentation which will help newbies with no RDBMS experience begin to 
> understand the basics of PostgreSQL.  For better or worse, MySQL owes 
> most of their success to the newbies.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
> 
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