Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AFE635104 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:03:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76825-02 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:03:20 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from outmail137074.authsmtp.com (outmail137074.authsmtp.com [62.13.137.74]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D283A633719 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:03:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail-c188.authsmtp.com (mail-c188.authsmtp.com [62.13.128.25]) by punt4.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Kp) with ESMTP id n2P13J2d034909; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:03:19 GMT Received: from Sidney-Stratton.local (adsl-63-195-55-98.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.55.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Kp) with ESMTP id n2P13HKh085652; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:03:18 GMT Message-ID: <49C982D3.1060300@agliodbs.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:15 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Stark CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Function C and INOUT parameters References: <665164.63021.qm@web28512.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4136ffa0903241111r4d552600h876839b9e3b65e3c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4136ffa0903241111r4d552600h876839b9e3b65e3c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Quench: ba96c5f5-18d8-11de-aecc-001871e930f4 X-AuthRoute: OCdyZgscClZXSx8a IioLCC5HRQ8+YBZL BAkGMA9GIUINWEQL c1AAcx12OUdbHwkB CnYLWl5UU1dwUC1z aBRQZABDZ09QVg11 Uk1LR01SWltqYR0C fmVGUhF3cQBENn9y Yk8sDCFSWhd/I0Ng Q0YAHXAHZDM1dTFK AxNFdwNVeARLKxZG agZ7GhFYa3VsHgsT PCIJBAV5EyhZIzhU RQdFBhobR0pDPxgb eixKBTw1FEgIWygp NHQn X-Authentic-SMTP: 61633136333939.cat.dmpriest.net.uk:1378/Kp X-Report-SPAM: If SPAM / abuse - report it at: http://www.authsmtp.com/abuse X-Virus-Status: No virus detected - but ensure you scan with your own anti-virus system. X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200903/963 X-Sequence-Number: 135641 > Personally I'm of the opinion we should eliminate most of these > duplicative mailing lists like -performance and -interfaces and just > use -general. I don't see that having multiple lists for user > questions helps either the users or the answerers due to just this > type of problem. ... and instead drive new users away by forcing them to sign up for one massive 400 posts/day list? I'm not sure about -interfaces, but -performance, -sql, -jdbc and others definitely have specific audiences and themes which they are already handling a *lot* of traffic for. --Josh